Re: Windows Vista

[mlent@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, the software developers really don't mind, and many even encourage it simply because in many instances, it becomes a revenue stream. Another point is that Microsoft and Apple keep a lot of these people employed as well because of this constant change.

 

I personally am perfectly happy with XP, and will typically keep an OS until the NEXT OS has at least 2-3 service packs. Normally, this is enough time to get all of the drivers out, get the big bugs worked out and have some amount of stability.

 

Mark Lent

 

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From: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Blackwell"
> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Windows Vista
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> > Well I expect that Vista will rival the success of Windows ME. I know
> why the gave it the name Millennium. You would have to spend a 1000
> years to get it to work. They have had enough complaints over Vista
> that I suspect they are working on the next greatest thing already.
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> apparenly they were underway before they'd even released the first
> service pack for vista
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> ; what 's wrong with peoples old OS's?
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> when a new OS doesn't support peripherals you have and software you've
> paid for.. when the OS prevents you from doing things *you* want to do,
> it really doesn't look like an upgrade at all.
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> to be honest it's not all MS's fault - they had the info on the OS out
> to all the vendors with plenty of time to spare, but I'm guessing the
> vendors are overwhelmed with the constant need to write drivers. when
> a driver written in '95 works all the way through to 2000 and beyond all
> is fine, but this constand demand to produce drivers every time a
> company (be it Apple of MS) decides to make a change - it's got to
> become annoying.
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> k
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