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I cannot understand how come so many losers buy into whiners of Windows Vista. I cannot understand why people would rally in trashing the new operating system instead of making things work, making the most of what they paid for and contribute back to make the operating system much better. I cannot understand why all the blame is pointed to Microsoft Windows Vista.

Well, come to think of it, being on a positive side of a new technology requires brain activitiy which is not something losers would want to spend time in.

Pathetic excuses is a big crap

Chris Pirillo wrote he was breaking up with Windows Vista with the following reasons:

My scanner doesn’t really work (Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 3052). HP hasn’t caught up with support yet, and software updates won’t be available until SP1 time-frame. The software works like a charm in XP – amazingly well, as a matter of fact.

Windows Movie Maker crashes on a regular basis.

My IPFax software doesn’t work (the driver will likely never be updated to be Vista-compliant). Never, EVER caused me a problem in XP. I need this software to work, and dual-booting to use this is not an option.

I still can’t get my Lifecam to work, but wound up purchasing the vastly superior Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision instead (which puts Microsoft’s new webcam software AND hardware series to shame).

On the same machine (AMD Quad FX), XP trumps Vista in terms of performance. I don’t have specific benchmarks on hand, but I can tell you the difference is quite palpable. This is even with most of Vista’s eye candy tuned to a dull roar. We’ll see if it runs just as quickly when everything’s reinstalled there. I only discovered this after rebooting to try my scanner in XP – blazing differences, similar tasks.

NVIDIA chipsets and video cards. Need I say more?

I simply can’t get to my OS X machine from Vista (or mount a WebDAV server).

Copernic Desktop Search, a far superior desktop search client to Microsoft’s, either doesn’t like Vista or Outlook 2007 – not sure which, yet. Either way, I can’t run it right now – and the Windows Desktop Search tool is still as lame as ever (sorry, Brandon). I’ll miss the new Start Menu, but I think there’s similar third-party software that’ll keep me happy in the meanwhile.

Explorer keeps losing my view settings. THIS IS DRIVING ME UP THE FARKING WALL! Now, I realize that XP suffers from this problem as well, but it’s never been this bad. There are so many new options that it’s difficult to reset each window’s view every time – including column headers, which are now permanently stuck on “Tags” and “Date Taken” (even though I may not be in a folder with objects supportive of these fields). Yes, I realize this problem stretches back centuries – but it seems to have gotten worse, not better.

My workaday software still seems to suffer from weird quirks now and again. I really don’t have the time or patience to wait for each developer to catch up just so I can go on living my life. All these little annoyances are starting to add up to one major headache. Instead of detailing each one separately (and extending this list exponentially), I’m just wrapping all of ‘em together into one point.

These are not compelling reasons to trash Windows Vista unless you only see the operating system from an eye candy point of view. Simple answers to Chris’ problems are:

It is the fault of Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 3052 that it doesn’t work on Windows Vista. They had all the time in the world to make their printer compatible; but obviously they had other things in mind. This holds true with all vendors. Vendors had hundreds of hours to make sure a few lines of code is written to make it compatible with Windows Vista. To accomodate these vendor irresponsibilities, a simple virtual pc could address the issue.

I have viewed so many movie presentations created around hundreds of hours from Windows Movie Maker and my competent architect manager says he did not encounter any problems with it.

To have the WebDAB (err, WebDAV) server running, it was reported that installing Office 2003 would solve the problem.

I experienced bumps when I first used Windows Vista; but little time spent on understanding these problems and making things worked helped me to fully appreciate the operating system. I am now in good terms with Windows Vista and my experience just keeps getting better and better. The little amount of time I spent making things work has translated to a great amount of productivity boost.

The little bumps encountered is definitely worth the trouble. Whining and finger pointing would not advance your experience; stop listening to all these troubles and start listening to how things are done in Windows Vista.

Chris article here.
Other articles against Windows Vista: Windows XP trumps Vista.