You know, if they didn’t have such a monopoly, they never would have released this dog to the public. They no doubt figured they could get away with it because where else can we go? Well, I was probably the closest I ever was to buying a Mac and I’m sure others figured they might as well make the switch because Microsoft obviously doesn’t care about their product. <\/p>\n
Can someone tell me again, why is switching XP for Vista an \u201cupgrade\u201d?
\nHere\u2019s one story of a Vista upgrade early last year that did not go well. Jon, let\u2019s call him, (bear with me \u2014 I\u2019ll reveal his full identity later) upgrades two XP machines to Vista. Then he discovers that his printer, regular scanner and film scanner lack Vista drivers. He has to stick with XP on one machine just so he can continue to use the peripherals.
\nDid Jon simply have bad luck? Apparently not. When another person, Steven, hears about Jon\u2019s woes, he says drivers are missing in every category \u2014 \u201cthis is the same across the whole ecosystem.\u201d
\nThen there\u2019s Mike, who buys a laptop that has a reassuring \u201cWindows Vista Capable\u201d logo affixed. He thinks that he will be able to run Vista in all of its glory, as well as favorite Microsoft programs like Movie Maker. His report: \u201cI personally got burned.\u201d His new laptop \u2014 logo or no logo \u2014 lacks the necessary graphics chip and can run neither his favorite video-editing software nor anything but a hobbled version of Vista. \u201cI now have a $2,100 e-mail machine,\u201d he says.
\nIt turns out that Mike is clearly not a na\u00eff. He\u2019s Mike Nash, a Microsoft vice president who oversees Windows product management. And Jon, who is dismayed to learn that the drivers he needs don\u2019t exist? That\u2019s Jon A. Shirley, a Microsoft board member and former president and chief operating officer. And Steven, who reports that missing drivers are anything but exceptional, is in a good position to know: he\u2019s Steven Sinofsky, the company\u2019s senior vice president responsible for Windows.
\nTheir remarks come from a stream of internal communications at Microsoft in February 2007, after Vista had been released as a supposedly finished product and customers were paying full retail price. Between the nonexistent drivers and PCs mislabeled as being ready for Vista when they really were not, Vista instantly acquired a reputation at birth: Does Not Play Well With Others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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