D.Duck wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.
On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.
I saw a survey where they asked Vista users if they would prefer keeping
Vista or using the previous Windows version they were using. 90% of the
Vista users wished they could have their old OS (WinXP, Win98 etc.)

At one time, Vista's problems were writtten about and discussed in the
computer magazaines and forums, today you read about it in CNN, ABC, AP
and all of the other mainstream media.

Over 110,000 people have already signed the "Save WinXP" petition. MS
may want to put on blinders and ignore the users and try to bully their
way past all of this, but if they do, the experts on CNBC will be
correct.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...6DntwD901KB280

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

SWS,

I really think
TROLL

I think it's a case of Vista working just fine for many people, you
included. But....it's hard to deny there *are* lots of problems affecting
many people. Shades of ME, could be. I don't believe all the negative
publicity Vista is receiving is published just because someone has it in for
MS, there's something to it.

I also think MS does have a business problem, investors sure do. The stock
price has been essentially level for the past 8 years. I made good money in
MSFT but when the bubble burst the party was over.

Why do you think they are so hot to buy Yahoo. Their OS and Office software
just cannot sustain growth any longer.




I'm not denying some users are having "problems" with VISTA. I go back
to the original IBM PC, and I recall "problems" with DOS and with Win
98, 98, Win2K, XP, and Vista. I've had no major issues with VISTA.

I have a recent vintage Apple MacBook. Apple has OS problems, too. It is
now on the second Leopard OS 10.5 service pack (since last fall), and a
third is finishing up an extensive beta.

MS, of course, has the lion's share of the small comptuter OS market,
with probably hundreds of millions of users. There are probably 25,000
or more software packages that run under various iterations of Windows,
and probably 5,000 hardware devices for Windows machines, and many of
those require drivers and software that interact with the OS.

Naturally, there are going to be problems. How could it be otherwise?

What's so funny and pathetic here in this newsgroup is that we have a
couple of computer numnutzes, like, for example, "Reggie," and Herring,
and several more, people who know less about computers and computer
operating systems than my pet cats, and who post "clip'n'pastes" to make
it appear they do know something. Paying attention to these clods about
computers is like taking a ship's bridge operations class from the
former skipper of the Exxon Valdez.