On Mar 24, 1:41*pm, "JimH" wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in messagenewsN6dnRjYxMO6fHranZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@comca st.com...





HK wrote:
John wrote:
LOL I do support and had customer complaining that when he upgraded code
on our equipment some of his windows 98 quit working....
* * "jamesgangnc"
* * wrote in ...
* * MS has about some version of it's os on about 90% of all the
* * personal computers. *That is hundreds of millions of installations.
There will always be people that have some combination of hardward
* * and other software that ms did not anticipate and will cause the
* * operation system to do something wrong.
* * * * *At the same time lots of organizations will delay implementing
a new
* * ms operating system. *It generally has a lot more to do with their
* * technical staff being familiar with the new software or their in
* * house applications not being ready for the new os than problems.
Though some will complain about the problems in the new os as well.
* * * * *That is not a new phenomenon. *It has been happening since
windows
* * 3.1. *As every version has matured the problems have declined.
Simply because of the sheer volume of installations problems get
* * more press that the other os'. *For everyone with a problem there
* * are 10s of thousands that have no problems at all. *Vista is close
* * to reaching the 100 million install mark. *Obviously it is not a
crisis.

I spent about an hour this past weekend reading about some of the
problems *some* Apple users are having with the latest release of OS X,
aka Leopard. Some Apple folk are having some serious issues. My guess is
that if Apple had the same sized user base for its operating systems as
Microsoft does, and if those Apple users were similar to Windows users,
the number and seriousness of problems would be similar.

If memory serves, I read where Apple has under 5% market share of desktop
PC operating systems.

This used to be a boater newsgroup. There's no requirement that posters
here have any knowledge of a computer OS or in fact have a boat. We have
plenty of boatless posters here who also present as too slow to use a
computer, too.

I wonder who started the discussion on how GREAT Vista was? *Ohhhh yeah,
now I remember, it was Harry Krause. *You are just upset because most
people don't think it offers any advantages over WinXP, but definitely has
a ton of bugs that MS has not been worked out. *Univ. of Penn IT dept.
does not recommend Vista and does not recommend Vista SP1.

ZDNet conducted a survey and 80% of the IT depts. said they had will NOT
be updating to Vista, and they will continue using the same OS they
currently are using.

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Read, Jim. It's people like ZDNet, 80% of IT departments, Penn State
and even Microsoft themselves that have a problem with Vista.