news.com— Microsoft is quietly telling PC makers they can offer a Windows XP "downgrade" to customers buying systems preloaded with Vista.
Sep 21, 2007View in Crawl 4
i agree, my parents for the first time in 5 years bought a new laptops for their business. I dont know or dont care which ones but the best Dell had to offer. They asked me to rush over after opening Vista for the first time. Seeing as I was their quick fix tech guy late at night. 30 minutes and Ive never been so frustrated in my life. After 15 minutes of demoing my MacBook Pro to my stepfather, he rushed to the Apple Store the next morning and went hog wild buying everything he could to switch. Hates spending money, cheap as hell when it comes to technology. Thanks me everyday since for making his life easier now.
Hey Windows Fanboys? Guess how many of us OSX users are gonna be returning or reverting back to Tiger once Leopard comes out??? MS, learn how to make it right the first time.
I've been running Vista for a few months now, and so far I've only ran into 2 issues. The first is Adobe Illustrator CS2 runs slow and quirky, but disabling the "desktop composition" seems to fix most of that. The second has to do with the new version of Media Center (I have the Home Premium version). Unlike XP's Media Center, which wasn't as cool looking but worked flawlessly, this new one has serious issues with correctly displaying album art for my mp3s. I'm not in a position at the moment to spend a wad of cash to upgrade Adobe Creative Suite (which I use every day for my job), but once I get sick enough of the Illustrator issues I probably will. Microsoft does need to fix Media Center though..
Closed AccountSep 23, 2007
Exactly. And that's good for smart people, because then we can just format it.
danasgharSep 23, 2007
i agree, my parents for the first time in 5 years bought a new laptops for their business. I dont know or dont care which ones but the best Dell had to offer. They asked me to rush over after opening Vista for the first time. Seeing as I was their quick fix tech guy late at night. 30 minutes and Ive never been so frustrated in my life. After 15 minutes of demoing my MacBook Pro to my stepfather, he rushed to the Apple Store the next morning and went hog wild buying everything he could to switch. Hates spending money, cheap as hell when it comes to technology. Thanks me everyday since for making his life easier now.
danasgharSep 23, 2007
Hey Windows Fanboys? Guess how many of us OSX users are gonna be returning or reverting back to Tiger once Leopard comes out??? MS, learn how to make it right the first time.
meateeSep 25, 2007
I've been running Vista for a few months now, and so far I've only ran into 2 issues. The first is Adobe Illustrator CS2 runs slow and quirky, but disabling the "desktop composition" seems to fix most of that. The second has to do with the new version of Media Center (I have the Home Premium version). Unlike XP's Media Center, which wasn't as cool looking but worked flawlessly, this new one has serious issues with correctly displaying album art for my mp3s. I'm not in a position at the moment to spend a wad of cash to upgrade Adobe Creative Suite (which I use every day for my job), but once I get sick enough of the Illustrator issues I probably will. Microsoft does need to fix Media Center though..
lcsteinSep 27, 2007
Vista is not even close to being as bad as ME! I run Vista at home without any issues...you people just like to complain!
lcsteinSep 27, 2007
Maybe your work should get more up to date software?
stupidpooSep 30, 2007
I held out too long with Windows 2000 Pro and looks like I am bound to do that again. Damn wife and her too small computer budget.