Vista-sucks

[Rob Wilkens]

Networking works like crap in vista.. Err... That may be giving it too much
credit.

Here's my experience today:
(1) Deleted old Vista partition
(2) Created new Vista partition in its space (keeping old XP install intact
until out of beta)
(3) Installed, Logged in.
(4) Web browser - Seems "ok", I can at least get to the microsoft sites now,
and
(5) I went to ideas.live.com and downloaded Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta,
and it tells me "I'm not online", well, if that's the case how on earth did
I just download you??
(6) Add Weather "Gadget" to desktop, it insists "Service not Available" but
I think I know better than that.

If #5 (Windows Live Messenger Beta) Doesn't have networking, and #6 The
Weather Gadget doesn't have networking, then what's going on?? Windows Mail
(the included mail program) _does_ have networking, that's how I'm able to
post this.

Come on guys, this is release candidate 1 and you're pre-selling the
product. Please tell me networking is going to be working PRIOR to the
"real" release??

-Rob

 

[Chris Sidener]

What brand of NIC do you have?

 

[Chupacabra]

Sounds like the things you're complaining about rely on back-end
infrastructure that may not be in place yet...

 

[Guest]

Did you go into Windows Firewall and turn the weather gadget on? All network
connect programs should be listed under the "exceptions" tab.

 

[William]

They work just fine for me.

William
Networking works like crap in vista.. Err... That may be giving it too much
credit.

Here's my experience today:
(1) Deleted old Vista partition
(2) Created new Vista partition in its space (keeping old XP install intact
until out of beta)
(3) Installed, Logged in.
(4) Web browser - Seems "ok", I can at least get to the microsoft sites now,
and
(5) I went to ideas.live.com and downloaded Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta,
and it tells me "I'm not online", well, if that's the case how on earth did
I just download you??
(6) Add Weather "Gadget" to desktop, it insists "Service not Available" but
I think I know better than that.

If #5 (Windows Live Messenger Beta) Doesn't have networking, and #6 The
Weather Gadget doesn't have networking, then what's going on?? Windows Mail
(the included mail program) _does_ have networking, that's how I'm able to
post this.

Come on guys, this is release candidate 1 and you're pre-selling the
product. Please tell me networking is going to be working PRIOR to the
"real" release??

-Rob

 

[Rock]

Networking works like crap in vista.. Err... That may be giving it too
much credit.

Here's my experience today:
(1) Deleted old Vista partition
(2) Created new Vista partition in its space (keeping old XP install
intact until out of beta)
(3) Installed, Logged in.
(4) Web browser - Seems "ok", I can at least get to the microsoft sites
now, and
(5) I went to ideas.live.com and downloaded Windows Live Mail Desktop
Beta, and it tells me "I'm not online", well, if that's the case how on
earth did I just download you??
(6) Add Weather "Gadget" to desktop, it insists "Service not Available"
but I think I know better than that.

If #5 (Windows Live Messenger Beta) Doesn't have networking, and #6 The
Weather Gadget doesn't have networking, then what's going on?? Windows
Mail (the included mail program) _does_ have networking, that's how I'm
able to post this.

Come on guys, this is release candidate 1 and you're pre-selling the
product. Please tell me networking is going to be working PRIOR to the
"real" release??

-Rob

Maybe the server was down? The weather gadget has been working fine
here.

 

[Rob Wilkens]

(1) The server was down in one case.
(2) My clock was wrong in another.

Since #1 and #2 were resolved, I've been running Vista and haven't been
tempted to dual-boot back into XP yet. Very happy with it.

-Rob