____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 28 August 2007 17:22 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>
>> A friend at work, who likes Windows and knows how to use it well, got
>> Vista on a new computer. He found he didn't like it at all.
>>
>> So he's back on XP.
>>
>> But guess what?
>>
>> Windows XP drivers for a couple of key components (wireless and
>> sound) don't work on his new (desktop) machine.
>>
>> Incredible.
>
> It's been noted before - he's not unique.
>
> Amazing, isn't it?
>
> New machines come with Vista by default, has drivers, but Vista sucks.
> Try moving back to XP, but there's no drivers. End up replacing the
> machine with something older, just to get things to actually work.
> Conversely, those who already have older hardware, and try to "upgrade"
> to Vista, can't get drivers or software to work either.
>
> What a mess.
>
> Roy's posted a tonne of reports in the last year, about both individuals
> /and/ companies migrating en mass away from Vista on new machines, for
> exactly those reasons. In fact IIRC Microsoft actually ended up
> capitulating by making emergency changes to their policy WRT provisions
> for such people, by issuing a whole new series of XP license numbers
> (apparently they ran out of numbers!), and with a programme intended to
> assist such people to "downgrade". Of course MS (and partners like Dell)
> could hardly ignore the screams of pain coming from their customers, on
> places like IdeaStorm, and elsewhere.
Remember what Acer said last month 'on behalf' on the "entire industry" (which
is "disappointed" with Vista).
Acer has just devoured Gateways and since around May it has been introducing
PCs with Linux preinstalled. It appears to have started in India, but it's
expanding everywhere (also to different models). It's called "escape route".
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