Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?

mr_mischief writes "An editorial written by Don Reisinger over at CNet's News.com takes Microsoft to task for the outright failure of Vista. He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of the company as, despite years in development, Vista was delivered to market too early. His suggestion? Support those who are running it, but otherwise ditch Vista and move on. 'Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support ... With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees--not Bill Gates' departure.'"

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Re:Whatever

[toddestan]

The solution I have found is to start some other video player and play a video in it. Doesn't matter what the player/video is, just that it's going. Now start up the video program you want to use, and the video you want to capture, and capture away with the Printscreen key.

It works because the first player ties up the hardware resources, so that the 2nd player has to do everything in software, hence Printscreen works.

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[fractoid]

The solution I have found is to start some other video player and play a video in it. Doesn't matter what the player/video is, just that it's going. Now start up the video program you want to use, and the video you want to capture, and capture away with the Printscreen key. Interesting solution. :) I remember the coolest thing about this otherwise-annoying 'feature' when they started using overlays for WMP was that you could screenshot it, open Paint, paste the screenshot in - and in the rectangle where the pasted screenshot overlapped the real WMP screen, you could see the movie still playing behind Paint. It was fun. ;)