Lest we forget how bad Microsoft sucks ...

[jayjwa]

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006214o-2000331758b,00.htm

In comment to article:

"I bought a very expensive sony vaio about 2 months ago, which
naturally came with vista business. I wasn't too concerned about it
even if I had already heard of the worries that others had with
vista. I thought: new laptop, very powerful, it should work just
fine. I wish...

I turns out that vista needed 26 minutes to boot from scratch. Yes, 26
minutes until I could do anything with the mouse pointer. So I called
the sony vaio support line to see whether it was just my problem. So
when I asked if I could just remove vista and install my copy of
windows XP the answer was a nervous no. After hours of negotiations
with many support reps it turned out that sony has a strict contract
with microsoft not to give any other support to machines sold with
vista than for vista."

Can you imagine: Sony has a strict contract with Microsoft not to give
any other support to machines sold with Vista than for Vista. What a
way to screw your customers.

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[T. Keating]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:45:31 -0400, jayjwa
<jay...@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

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>http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006214o-2000331758b,00.htm
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>In comment to article:
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>"I bought a very expensive sony vaio about 2 months ago, which
>naturally came with vista business. I wasn't too concerned about it
>even if I had already heard of the worries that others had with
>vista. I thought: new laptop, very powerful, it should work just
>fine. I wish...
>
>I turns out that vista needed 26 minutes to boot from scratch. Yes, 26
>minutes until I could do anything with the mouse pointer. So I called
>the sony vaio support line to see whether it was just my problem. So
>when I asked if I could just remove vista and install my copy of
>windows XP the answer was a nervous no. After hours of negotiations
>with many support reps it turned out that sony has a strict contract
>with microsoft not to give any other support to machines sold with
>vista than for vista."
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>Can you imagine: Sony has a strict contract with Microsoft not to give
>any other support to machines sold with Vista than for Vista. What a
>way to screw your customers.
>

I've got something wayy.. worse..

UPS just shipped their latest WORLDSHIP 10.0 software for XP...
It doesn't work with Vista, and requires admin privileges.
It's ALSO using M$ latest .NET along with a MSSQL
client/server package. It's has an amazing code footprint(disk) of
605MB!!!

At least a 100x in resource overuse (kill) to accomplish this
relatively simple task. .

If this is M$ new architecture of the future..
I don't want anything to do with it..

[GMAN]

In article <x763vsg...@vdrl.ath.cx>, jayjwa <jay...@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:
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>http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006214o-2000331758b,00.htm
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>In comment to article:
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>"I bought a very expensive sony vaio about 2 months ago, which
>naturally came with vista business. I wasn't too concerned about it
>even if I had already heard of the worries that others had with
>vista. I thought: new laptop, very powerful, it should work just
>fine. I wish...
>
>I turns out that vista needed 26 minutes to boot from scratch. Yes, 26
>minutes until I could do anything with the mouse pointer. So I called
>the sony vaio support line to see whether it was just my problem. So
>when I asked if I could just remove vista and install my copy of
>windows XP the answer was a nervous no. After hours of negotiations
>with many support reps it turned out that sony has a strict contract
>with microsoft not to give any other support to machines sold with
>vista than for vista."
>
>
>
>
>Can you imagine: Sony has a strict contract with Microsoft not to give
>any other support to machines sold with Vista than for Vista. What a
>way to screw your customers.
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You might need alot more memory.

[Canuck57]

"jayjwa" <jay...@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> wrote in message
news:x763vsg...@vdrl.ath.cx...

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> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006214o-2000331758b,00.htm
>
> In comment to article:
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>
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> "I bought a very expensive sony vaio about 2 months ago, which
> naturally came with vista business. I wasn't too concerned about it
> even if I had already heard of the worries that others had with
> vista. I thought: new laptop, very powerful, it should work just
> fine. I wish...
>
> I turns out that vista needed 26 minutes to boot from scratch. Yes, 26
> minutes until I could do anything with the mouse pointer. So I called
> the sony vaio support line to see whether it was just my problem. So
> when I asked if I could just remove vista and install my copy of
> windows XP the answer was a nervous no. After hours of negotiations
> with many support reps it turned out that sony has a strict contract
> with microsoft not to give any other support to machines sold with
> vista than for vista."
>
> Can you imagine: Sony has a strict contract with Microsoft not to give
> any other support to machines sold with Vista than for Vista. What a
> way to screw your customers.

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I think the idea is to double dip the customer.

You get a PC, nothing works or the performance is so bad...

You go out and buy a second OS, probably XP so you can run your stuff.

Microsoft sells 2 copies of the OS. While I have heard they let you
downgrade for free, you still have to buy another copy for the media. Go
figure.