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Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places
Stony Stevenson writes "A day after it was released for public download, Windows Vista SP1 is drawing barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems. 'I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update,' wrote 'Iggy33' in a comment posted Wednesday on Microsoft's Vista team blog. Iggy33 was just one of dozens of posters complaining about Vista Service Pack 1's effect on their PCs. Other troubles reported by Vista SP1 users ranged from a simple inability to download the software from Microsoft's Windows Update site to sudden spikes in memory usage. To top it all off, the service pack will not install on computers that use peripheral device drivers that Microsoft has deemed incompatible."
So what the article's really saying is that hard drives with Vista installed should be listed as an "incompatible peripheral".
How this is any different from any other installation of Windows [insert version] + [insert servicepack]? That's a joke, btw..
It seems like a great thing, but we don't know how they deem things incompatible. MS, in theory, has a big list of compatible hardware (which seems to be down atm, but providing an article with a link for completeness); however, for all we know it's one of those "Pay us and we'll 'certify' your software as Windows Compat, wink wink", just like the Nintendo Seal of Approval from all those years ago. Are these actually incompatible peripherals, or has the company making the hardware just not coughed up enough in fees to be deemed compatible?
"The (w) ow is now!"
Windows 3.1x calc: 3.11 - 3.10 = 0.00
V-I-S-T-A, debacle!
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It seems that their products are complelty unstable and useless, and are outragously expensive for what they are... crapware :)
It seems m$'s problem is ALL THEY CARE ABOUT NOW IS $$$, not the quality or stability of their products.
Windows XP: Okay. Although I found Linux to be much better, at least XP was usable. Only 2 versions.
Windows Vista: Outragously expensive with 6 DAMN VERSIONS, all of them give you the same shitty operating system. Constant nag screens, Cancel/Allow dialogs, horrible performance for gaming and media playback (Any games older than 2005 screw up on my system with my new nVidia 8600GT graphics card)... it goes on and on.
And it's not just OSes. Even their games suck.
Xbox: Good system, doesn't blow up, 1 version, good online play, best system on the market in it's time
Xbox 360: Horrible system, huge risk of blowing it up and getting an RRoD, 4-6 DAMN VERSIONS (notice the trend here, we go from 1 to 4 versions of the Xbox 360, and 2 to 6 versions of Windows Vista), now useless HD-DVD, outragously pathetic attempts to rip off the consumers ($50 a year just to play games online with Xbox Live, $10 DLC thats FREE on the PC and PS3), targeted at kids so they don't understand they're being scammed.
Halo 3: Overhyped, mediocre, 3 DAMN VERSIONS (again, notice the trend with versions and editions), low quality, rushed just to make $$$, $10 DLC every few months (3 damn maps for $10, what a ripoff), aimed at kids because of how much of a ripoff it is, etc.
Notice the trend here? Over capitalism, a complete loss of quality and performance, and they just rip you off.
m$ is going down soon. Like every company, they can't last forever.
Try http://microsoft.com/
They have a lot of positive, and useful things to say about Microsoft products. In fact, they are so pro-Microsoft, you'd think they made Windows...
I am open source, and Linux baby!
My roommate has pirated Vista.
Interestingly, it seems to work quite well. Except for the time he nearly lost 200 gigs of stuff from an external drive when he tried to use Quicktime.
Really. How is it that something like a video card driver could impact the kernel? What an intentionally cluster fucked mess.
I also thought this was funny:
WTF? Why make the user drag around for three dinky packages?
Windoze package management is terminally broken.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
12 blog comments!? That's 12 times as many as there are linux users. Microsoft will have hell to pay!
One broken computer is too many when it's yours. The Windows way of doing things does not give you an "undo" button, so you are stuck with a wipe and reload and begging M$ for permission to be "genuine" again.
What you have to realize is that not everyone complains and mass production multiplies the woes. Each of the dozen or two complaints must be multiplied by the thousands of other people who have the same pieces of "incompatible" hardware and will have exactly the same problems. Then you have to consider the hundreds of other people who's computer is too broken to complain. Dozens of complaints on a M$ blog represents a significant fraction of the user base.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I know a few places you could stick it!
Bound to get a sour reception...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Can you give an example of where they have failed on this scale?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
The 2 minute Vista install shows you how. Obviates the need for service packs and is sure to work.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
From the thread following the article: eg Dell Dimension 9200 stock box came with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. No upgrade because of onboard sound.
Kinda stinks if you can't just unplug it eh? How about if you are using onboard video and vista doesn't like your chipset? guess you have to go buy a new video card. Some of us don't have a video card slot because we have a micro board and use onboard video. Vista should be called Visa, now it's time to start getting out the plastic to pay for all the trouble it's going to cause.
Then we can get into the argument that a flakey driver should not be able to send your OS packing in fear.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.