Dear Microsoft

[den]

Windows Vista and Office 2007 ARE NOT ENHANCING MY COMPUTING EXPERIENCE.

aagh!

Comments

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

*sympathy*

I'm doing my best to avoid both of those things.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

one of the office PCs has them.

[charles.livejournal.com]

<smug-mac-nerd/>

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

*grump*

XP and Office2003 are a piece of cake.

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

...With tasty icing and sprinkles on it, too.

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

Microsoft Vista has a downgrade option, I think. IIRC oceansedge used it.

[jamesb]

To do a legal downgrade to XP Pro, you need to have either Vista Business or Vista Ultimate Edition, but it can be a pain to get XP Pro installed and activated when you do the downgrade.

Another problem is that some of the pre-installed versions of Vista are coming with a MBR (Master Boot Record) sector that doesn't conform to the MBR standard, and will not allow either dual booting or the downgrade to XP Pro, in its as shipped state.

There are still a few companies selling new "special order" machines with XP Pro, but Microsoft requires that to cease by the end of January 2008. However, Microsoft have recently made the downgrade process a bit easier, and will allow computer manufacturers to ship some Vista computers with XP Pro CDs that will simplify the downgrade process and subsequent activation ... clicky.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I use $12k of software in the office that will NOT run on Vista. I am hanging on to my XP CDs like mad. Any new PCs will get a low level format first thing.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

You are aware the new M$ operating system is known in some circles as "Windows Fister", right?

[keethrax.livejournal.com]

I've yet to have any real issues with Vista. I wouldn't pay extra to add it to a working computer, but I don't see the issues most people seem to have. There are certainly a few, but no more (IMO) than XP (which I rather like as far as MS Operating systems go).

Office 2007, on the other hand, has one of the most awful interfaces I have *ever* seen.

[swarm32.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. Nothing like watching 40GB of hard disk space go Poof with just an OS and a productivity suite. That and the constant nagging.

Open letter to Micro$oft

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and you can take your Windows Live Mail and shove it up your Vista, too, Microsoft!

Have the best

-=Kiyoshi

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

And it's taken you THIS LONG to come to that conclusion? };-)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've had this problem from day one, but the frustrations have finally hit a level where I start screaming into the aether.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

*hug*

[sanderling.livejournal.com]

I can sympathize. The store employee tried to tell me it was simply that the laptop I bought was too deficient in RAM to run Vista well (well then, why even sell that combination?).

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Dear Valued Micro$oft Customer:

Windows Vista is our most brilliant operating system yet. It enhances revenue both directly and by encouraging users to upgrade to new, exciting productivity software with new, exciting features such as being able to work with Vista. And it preserves Micro$oft's efforts to keep the computer software marketplace simple and pure. We fail to see why you object to it.

Incidentally, discussing the features of Micro$oft products in derogatory fashion violates the EULA to which you agree by allowing photons to bounce off Micro$oft product packaging and into your eyes. You will be hearing from us.

--Micro$oft Lawyers, Inc.

[carlfoxmarten]

And that's why I use avoid using M$ $oftware as much as possible.

Not to mention the fact that my brother (a gamer of sorts, so kind of needs to use Windows) said that when he gets a new computer with Vista on it, he's going to switch to Linux.

Now I need to learn how to give technical support to people like that...