Text 13901, 54 rader
Skriven 2007-04-10 17:55:14 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200.0)
  Kommentar till text 13897 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende:  I'm pissed!
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Ruth Haffly wrote in a message to JIM WELLER:

 RH> My sympathy--Steve broke down and bought a brand new, everything
 RH> matchin system in January.  It came with a Vista upgrade offer--as
 RH> if he'd consider it!  He had plenty of "fun" getting some of the
 RH> older programs to work; had to spend more $$$ to get ones like the
 RH> software for my embroidery machine to work on the new one. But, now
 RH> it's up and running & quite often I'll hear "cool!" or similar as
 RH> he discovers new features about it.

Something funny about that: I was looking at getting a new HP Slimline machine
from Sam's Club for myself.  $800 gets me the computer and a nice 19" LCD
screen.  So for S&G, I called HP and asked if W2K would run on it.  Wow, you
should have seen the chaos I created.  It wasn't on any script, so no one knew
what to do!

Nevertheless, I subvertly loaded up SIW (System Information for Windows - if
you work on Windows machines, this is a great free program that shows you
EVERYTHING about the system) and Craig's PCI probe onto a USB drive and went to
work on the system on display.  I was tweedling around in it when some manager
came up to me and whined; I showed him my CompTIA A+ certification and he
backed off, heh.  I looked and poked around-everything in there I can run under
W2K (I /could/ even put NT4 on it, but for the speed gain and ease of use, W2K
is the clear choice...).

It's simply amazing how dumb a lot of people are about thinking that they have
to keep up with the latest and greatest.  It's a mindset Microsoft adores
pushing on people; however, this time with Vista, they may have bitten off more
they can chew concering advertising machines that run Vista...seems that people
bought all of these computers with Vista Basic that ran okay, but in order to
get all those cool features in Vista, they had to upgrade to Vista Premium,
which promptly killed their machines.

So far, it's getting into the $40 million dollar range now with that particular
class-action lawsuit.

If you're ever in the Atlanta area, let me know.  I get older machines that
work just fine all the time.  If you or Steve need a backup, let me know.  I'm
picking up several Dell workstations (P3, I believe) from my work.  Newer isn't
always better, as Jim unfortunately found out.

Jim: the best of luck getting everything to work.  I understand.

 RH> ... Computers run on smoke. They stop when it leaks out.

Damn tootin'. :P

Later,
Sean

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