cmendla - 5:01 pm on Apr 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hester Re "I'm going to upgrade from Vista to Windows ME. "

Thanks buddy, now I have to clean the coffee off my keyboard.

Anyway, Vista will probably boost my consulting biz. I've seen a bunch of nightmares already. The problem is that a lot of people buying vista machines will end up finding that it is going to cost a lot to get someone in to fix all the problems.

Some so far (some of these are known issues with no immediate easy fix)

- A usb hub blew Vista out to a blue screen of death
- It took over an hour to get a shared printer to be visible
- You need to change something (if forget what right now) to fix the slow copying of files over the network.
- One client had an incompatibility between their Real estate app, Norton and Vista that two previous consultants couldn't solve. I solved it but only after 10 hours of work.

Oh and we havent' even begun to deal with doctors whose Xrays are suddenly fuzzy because the DRM thought the image was supposed to be protected.

Yessirreee. An all Vista OEM world is certainly going to be interesting. It would be nice if the gave XP a stay of execution.

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