Why does Google rate above consumers?

[nsag]

Google gets to have Vista modified to suit its desktop search engine.
Who cares?
How exactly does that benefit one single consumer in any way, shape or form?
In the meantime consumers are stuck with a slow OS, incompatible with many
programs, useless for high end graphics, useless for high end gaming, poor
multimedia performance, poor network performance, deletes its own system
restore files if you dual boot to XP, etc. etc. etc.
Consumers who paid for a computer that is preloaded with this turkey should
have legal redress before Google.
Big time redress: Microsoft should pay for the suffering it has inflicted.
Five months after I bought a computer with XP I received my "free" update to
Vista Home Premium. Never mind that for the last 5 months I have been
getting almost daily Emails telling me that all the information I sent
multiple times to get the Vista upgrade was invalid and being ignored by
Gateway.
There is no way on earth I would install Vista on that computer anyway.
I wonder if I can unload these discs on Ebay?

 

[Guest]

Spend some money and buy a decent computer.

You knew what the hardware requirements were before you bought Vista.

Stop whinging, and go away.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Most of the issues you mentioned seem to be hardware issues.
If the hardware is insufficient for what you need, contact Gateway
since they sold you the computer.
Also make sure you have the latest Windows Vista drivers.
Do not assume a newer computer comes with the newest drivers, that is
usually not the case.

If you bought the computer for "high end" anything, then you should
have bought a "high end" system costing "high end" dollars.
Anything less will probably not be suitable for "high end" use.

However if you have specific issues, you should post the details in a
new thread so someone may be able to help.

Windows Vista has been running fine on my two older computers since
November.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

"nsag" wrote:

I'd like the easy choice of NONE, and have no underfootware indexing
running underfoot.

If I choose another desktop search engine, I want only that engine's
indexer service running underfoot, not that in addition to the MS one.

If choosing a desktop search engine, a major criterion would be small
performance impact (especially given the piggy nature of the MS one).
If I'm obliged to keep MS's engine, then competing engines can only
minimize how much worse than the MS one they would be, which
undermines the competitive opportunity to be faster than the MS one.


OTOH, when it comes to search engine choice, have a look at what Apple
is doing with their Safari. This offers Google and Yahoo as engines,
but is not "open", i.e. no other choices can be added.

Mozilla is paid by Google for "product placement" as the default
Firefox search engine, and like IE7, Firefox is "open" to the addition
of any other search engine the user may choose.

How much more does Google pay Apple for the more restrictive choice in
Safari? Is this why Apple's releasing Safari on Windows, i.e. to get
a far larger royalties cheque from Google each month?

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