Have I mentioned I can't stand Vista?

D

David Pratt

Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup, because I am going to vent my gripes so far after 60
days of use:

1. Networking: No can do at all on my Office network; Period, End of
conversation! I have tried all the Troubleshooting suggestions and STILL
cannot get the computers at my work to talk across platforms (XP to Vista
and vice versa). Major impediment to our office upgrading any further.

2. File security: I have several games I transferred over from my XP
system to my personal laptop, and some of the data directories are NOT in
their proper place; instead they have been moved to a hidden directory that
cannot be found by other elements of the respective games. The games
running on my machine can find them just fine, the Computers that connect to
my machine (when they can find my machine on the nonexistent network)
cannot.

3. Admin Popups, even when I am already running as Administrator. Just
another way MS can annoy the heck out of us.

And I thought Win98 was bad. I won't say this is the worse piece of C**P
of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I would
be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it. Microsoft should be
paying us to run it on our computers, not the other way around. I finally
got so fed up with it I haven't touched my brand new Vista computer in 2
weeks

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C

Cheri

David Pratt said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup, because I am going to vent my gripes so far after
60 days of use:

1. Networking: No can do at all on my Office network; Period, End of
conversation! I have tried all the Troubleshooting suggestions and STILL
cannot get the computers at my work to talk across platforms (XP to Vista
and vice versa). Major impediment to our office upgrading any further.

2. File security: I have several games I transferred over from my XP
system to my personal laptop, and some of the data directories are NOT in
their proper place; instead they have been moved to a hidden directory
that cannot be found by other elements of the respective games. The games
running on my machine can find them just fine, the Computers that connect
to my machine (when they can find my machine on the nonexistent network)
cannot.

3. Admin Popups, even when I am already running as Administrator. Just
another way MS can annoy the heck out of us.

And I thought Win98 was bad. I won't say this is the worse piece of C**P
of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I would
be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it. Microsoft should be
paying us to run it on our computers, not the other way around. I finally
got so fed up with it I haven't touched my brand new Vista computer in 2
weeks


Personally, I loved Win98. I like Vista fine, but I don't do all of the
things that you do, so maybe that's why. I do hate the admin popups as well,
it would surely seem that one should be able to have an option to "do not
show this again" on many programs.

Cheri
 
D

DanS

I won't say this is the worse piece of
C**P
of software I have seen in 20 years of working with computers, but I
would be hard pressed to think of anything that beats it.

Microsoft Bob ?
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

DDW said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.

Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?

A quick search on this newsgroup brings up:

zachd [MSFT]
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
Tim Quan [MSFT]

...and they may be others that are not disclosing that they work for MS.

ss.
 
D

Dave

hmmm, I wonder why I never saw it.
I figured it was over a month old, as I have WLM set to delete posts > 30
days old.
Perhaps the OP got caught in one of my troll filters.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

DDW said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.

Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?


No. Synapse Syndrome's message is not correct. There are occasional
Microsoft employees posting here, but they are rare, and they post
unofficially, on their own time.



A quick search on this newsgroup brings up:

zachd [MSFT]
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
Tim Quan [MSFT]

..and they may be others that are not disclosing that they work for MS.

ss.
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

Ken Blake said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.

Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?


No. Synapse Syndrome's message is not correct. There are occasional
Microsoft employees posting here, but they are rare, and they post
unofficially, on their own time.



What do you mean by my message is not correct?

ss.
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

Ken Blake said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.

Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?

No. Synapse Syndrome's message is not correct. There are occasional
Microsoft employees posting here, but they are rare, and they post
unofficially, on their own time.


(My previous reply has been deleted on the MS newsserver)

What I showed in my previous post was that there are "MS employees of some
account reading this newsgroup", so what do you mean that my "message is not
correct"?

ss.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

Ken Blake said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.


Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?

No. Synapse Syndrome's message is not correct. There are occasional
Microsoft employees posting here, but they are rare, and they post
unofficially, on their own time.


(My previous reply has been deleted on the MS newsserver)

What I showed in my previous post was that there are "MS employees of some
account reading this newsgroup", so what do you mean that my "message is not
correct"?



In that case, my apologies. From the quotation above, I had assumed
(apparently mistakenly) that "Nope. This is a P2P group." was your
answer to the statement "Okay, I really hope that there are some MS
employees of some account reading this newsgroup."

If you didn't post "Nope. This is a P2P group." then your post wasn't
the one that was wrong, and DDW was the one who was wrong. I think I
just replied to the wrong message.

Sorry, again.
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

Ken Blake said:
Okay, I really hope that there are some MS employees of some account
reading this newsgroup,

[snip]

Nope. This is a P2P group.


Does that mean that MS employees are banned here?

No. Synapse Syndrome's message is not correct. There are occasional
Microsoft employees posting here, but they are rare, and they post
unofficially, on their own time.

(My previous reply has been deleted on the MS newsserver)

What I showed in my previous post was that there are "MS employees of
some account reading this newsgroup", so what do you mean that my
"message is not correct"?

In that case, my apologies. From the quotation above, I had assumed
(apparently mistakenly) that "Nope. This is a P2P group." was your
answer to the statement "Okay, I really hope that there are some MS
employees of some account reading this newsgroup."

If you didn't post "Nope. This is a P2P group." then your post wasn't
the one that was wrong, and DDW was the one who was wrong. I think I
just replied to the wrong message.

Sorry, again.

I do actually try to format my posts neatly so that they can easily be
followed. I also have macros that automatically correct top posting mess
(depending on the number of 'greater than' quote markers/chevrons/whatever
you call them), so I will only fully excuse you if you ever find one thing
that I say that is genuinely wrong!

ss.
 

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