I confess I Beta tested Vista and used it for production boxes back in 7/05.
Never had a significant problem with it, although they could have improved
upon it and most enterprises and Gartner are now in favor of adopting Win 7
without waiting for a Service Pack. I'm past Vista. I've used Win 7 as
Production since December--and every build gets better. I'm here to help
people with whatever flavor of Windows they have "period."
I have way too much to do to waste time in a ****ing contest with the AA's
of the world. You waste a lot of time with non-specific criticisms of any
Windows OS. I'd use it playing with Linux if you don't like Windows or you
can buy a Mac and use OS X+.
CH
"Adam Albright" wrote in message
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This reminds me of the Mohave project.
So you confess that you are one of the idiots that fell for that vista
promoting propaganda crap?
I mean how dumb can you be man?
"Chad Harris" wrote in message
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While Senator Hinojosa's problems were not specified, many of the
problems he referred to could be easily solved if the crackers in Texas
got some help from people who know what they're doing from the MSFT
campus or from somewhere in Austin.
This falls in the broad category of what I call Vista paranoia without
actually testing and using Vista. This whole scheme of "a lot of
problems" touted predominantly by people who don't have a minimal amount
of computer skill was very unfortunate. Part of it was propelled by 3rd
party driver and hdw manufacturers dragging their feet on drivers,
predomininatly 64 bit drivers too long after Vista RTM'd in 2007.
Another force is that since there has been about half the time between
Vista's RTM and the iminent release of Windows 7, with its release of
RC1 to the public a short time away given the CPU efficiency and
stability of the Beta of Windows 7, many people, governments and
medium/large enterprises included are now electing to wait for the RTM of
Windows 7.
I help a number of "friends"/and aquaintances with their boxes who have
dissed Vista without really trying it, only to find that every one of
their problems were solvable in minutes and the problems were with them
not Vista or MSFT.
This reminds me of the Mohave project.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mojave-experiment/
CH
"Adam Albright" wrote in message
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Vista needs a modern, well specified system. What you are planning is a
waste of time and money..
Microsoft claims their crap OS can run on a 800 mhz computer with 512 mb
ram!
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...8250/specs.htm
Microprocessor type
IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 microprocessor that runs at 2.0 GHz internally and 400
MHz
externally; or 2.26, 2.4, 2.53, 2.66, 2.8, or 3.06 GHz internally and
533
MHz externally
Vista needs a modern, well specified system. What you are planning is a
waste of time and money..
WRONG! Vista is a waste of time and money!
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-a...adds-anti-vist
Texas has added a rider to its state budget requiring written
authorization
before buying Windows Vista.
In Texas, apparently, the state government doesn't like Windows Vista.
In
fact they dislike it so much that a State Senator has added a rider to
the
state budget that would require any state body, with the exception of
schools, to have written authorization before buying Vista.
The rider, proposed by Juan Hinojosa, was adopted without objection, and
the
budget is expected to be passed this week.
Senator Hinojosa told the San Antonio News:
"We have a lot of problems with the Vista program."
"It had a lot of bugs. It takes up a lot of memory. It's not compatible
with
other equipment, and it's supposed to be an upgrade from the XP program
that
is being used by state agencies, and it's not."
"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote in message
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"Ant" wrote in message
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Hello.
I have an old Dell Dimension 8250 test PC that I would like to install
Vista onto. However, it has no DVD drives. I cannot even boot from
external USB drives (3.5" disk drive, external HDDs, and DVD burner
drive -- CMOS doesn't see them and found out PC doesn't support
bootable
USB devices).
However, I do have enough HDD space (30 GB free on second partition)
to
copy Vista DVD (or make an ISO file) onto it through network (will
take a
while).
Thank you in advance. 
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Vista needs a modern, well specified system. What you are planning is a
waste of time and money..
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