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carl
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Microsoft Vista - anybody had a favorable experience.

I bought a couple new machines loaded with Vista - and wished I'd ordered them loaded with XP.

I've had issues with wireless networking on one of the machines. They have both blue screened. I keep having to add the same printer over and over again. They are both dual core and clocked faster than the old machines yet seem no quicker in real world use.

Copying files across a network is just unbelievably slow - whilst it calculates the time to copy - it then takes significantly less time to copy than the time to calculate.

The UI changes inside Microsoft Office are just mind numbing. so much so that I have challenged several computer savvy people to print a document from within Microsoft Word - a primary feature one would guess from a word processing document. To a person they have given up and had to ask. I can no longer print faxes (or any file that arrives as a bmp correctly) without purchasing more software from Microsoft.

My mother has issues with sound drivers dropping out, autoplay not working (and not configurable, network dropping out - printers not working. She's not alone as whilst doing the research on the web I find that many people have exactly the same issues.

I dread to think how much this is going to cost a large corporation to retrain their staff. It's simply crazy.

What prompted this rant is that I've just seen a couple of the new apple adverts where they are touting the fact that people are now downgrading back to XP as another reason to switch to Mac. So I'm not alone - makes me feel better....

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