"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Eisboch wrote:



How about the average computer user who does not have advanced computer
skills or even the technical knowledge of what to buy?
My daughter recently replaced their computer with a new HP Pavilion
laptop preloaded with some version of Vista. They bought the best model
they could afford, but she doesn't know a megabit from a horsefly.

I was playing with it the other day. It just doesn't have the "snap"
opening programs or even simple navigation to files or folders that my 4
year old HP Pavilion running XP has. I neglected to check what her
processor type, speed or RAM capacity is, so it may not be a fair
comparison. Mine has a Pentium 4, 3.00GHz processor and 2.0 GB of RAM.
Next time I visit, I'll check and see what her new one has.

Point is, to us non-hobbyist or geeks, it seems that if Vista requires
certain minimums in terms of processors and RAM capacity to operate
properly, (which I am sure raises the cost of the computer) Microsoft
is sorta screwing many customers by forcing Vista onto all new Windows
based computers.

I also may not know what I am talking about, because my daughter's
computer .... which is only a month old .... is my first experience with
Vista. So, I am one of those "know-nothings" who claims Vista is
slower than XP. In this particular case, it *is* noticeably slower
than the 4 year old computer I am using now.

Eisboch


Eisboch,

I have helped two friends setup their Windows Vista desktops

Bull****. There hasn't been one post in this newsgroup that indicates you
know anything about computers or operating systems. All you have ever done
is cut and pasted negative news stories about VISTA.

Having worked with everything MS has produced since DOS 2.10, I can say this
for Vista, for the hype and the marketing BS is a PoC. Worse than the WinMe
stuff by a long shot. WinMe worked, just boring.

And users who only do email, news, basic web surfing and haven't used
anything else might not notice too much.

On to double and triple dipping the customer. The Microsoft monopoly and
bundling practices now have us whe

-You buy a MS Vista OS on a commodity PC from Best Buy as that is all they
sell.
-You then by XP so you have something that works, your second time you pay
MS.
-Now MS is going to cut a new Win7 version this for next year and Vista
isn't even fixed?

The triple consumer dip is what I call it. MS is in trouble, doing the
new-Coke, classic Coke is going to tank consumer confidence in the MS OSes.