Are they too big to be looked at or have they bought off so many politicians that they are too corrupt to prosecute. Europe seems to have the right approach. While this investigation is about labor pools and collusion there needs to be a major effort to look at restraint of trade on the sell side. A 90% market share coupled with the practices M$ uses, including buying off standards committees, Norway for example, and bribing African nations to not use Linux when it is obvious that the people of the nation will not see a cent until it has been filtered through the pockets of the power people and most of it salted away in Swiss bank accounts, should at least be cause for asking some questions, no matter how much of congress they now own. Their practices make Carnegie and Rockefeller look like amateurs.
I was forced to take Vista. I tried it. It couldn't find anything on my network except my fax machine and the user interface for a modular print server, but not the printer. I finally hard coded the address and then it had driver issues. The printer was a plain vanilla HP laserjet. I replaced Vista ASAP with Ubuntu which immediately connected to everything. I wasted 90 minutes downloading approximately 150 updates out of the box. I guess HP didn't care if it was current or maybe Vista has so many issues that it needed that many new updates during shipping.
I share Jim's experience with Vista and some of the pain. I very quickly realized that it was hopeless. I had to get a medium performance computer up and running on my network quickly. I bought it with Vista, set it up and found that the only things recognizable on the network were the interface to a print server and my fax machine! The rest of the computers, printers and access points were not findable. A quick trouble shoot indicated that I would have to download a network component for each of my XP systems, install reboot and hope. I did one but it didn't show either. I couldn't locate any shared printers via Vista and could only install one networked printer by hard coding the IP address.
By the way there was an hours worth of updates to install on a new system, 20+.
It also brought a 3.2 GHz Pentium with a gig of memory almost to its knees.
Enough is enough.
I installed Ubuntu and it immediately recognized my entire network. It took a few minutes to install the networked printers and I am off an running with no problems. Fortunately I don't need any Windows unique software on this system, Open Office and Firefox do the trick.
I have been recommending to my clients to wait on Vista. I am now going to recommend that they wait until Vista is replaced or switch to Linux or buy a Mac.
Frank
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Are they too big to be looked at or have they bought off so many politicians that they are too corrupt to prosecute. Europe seems to have the right approach. While this investigation is about labor pools and collusion there needs to be a major effort to look at restraint of trade on the sell side. A 90% market share coupled with the practices M$ uses, including buying off standards committees, Norway for example, and bribing African nations to not use Linux when it is obvious that the people of the nation will not see a cent until it has been filtered through the pockets of the power people and most of it salted away in Swiss bank accounts, should at least be cause for asking some questions, no matter how much of congress they now own. Their practices make Carnegie and Rockefeller look like amateurs.
I was forced to take Vista. I tried it. It couldn't find anything on my network except my fax machine and the user interface for a modular print server, but not the printer. I finally hard coded the address and then it had driver issues. The printer was a plain vanilla HP laserjet. I replaced Vista ASAP with Ubuntu which immediately connected to everything. I wasted 90 minutes downloading approximately 150 updates out of the box. I guess HP didn't care if it was current or maybe Vista has so many issues that it needed that many new updates during shipping.
I share Jim's experience with Vista and some of the pain. I very quickly realized that it was hopeless. I had to get a medium performance computer up and running on my network quickly. I bought it with Vista, set it up and found that the only things recognizable on the network were the interface to a print server and my fax machine! The rest of the computers, printers and access points were not findable. A quick trouble shoot indicated that I would have to download a network component for each of my XP systems, install reboot and hope. I did one but it didn't show either. I couldn't locate any shared printers via Vista and could only install one networked printer by hard coding the IP address. By the way there was an hours worth of updates to install on a new system, 20+. It also brought a 3.2 GHz Pentium with a gig of memory almost to its knees. Enough is enough. I installed Ubuntu and it immediately recognized my entire network. It took a few minutes to install the networked printers and I am off an running with no problems. Fortunately I don't need any Windows unique software on this system, Open Office and Firefox do the trick. I have been recommending to my clients to wait on Vista. I am now going to recommend that they wait until Vista is replaced or switch to Linux or buy a Mac. Frank