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to previous reviewer (2 bad), well said and amen !!!!!!
by: Low Runner | 2 | 2009-03-10 | | | | "Crapware"
The only OS that is halfway stable, looks nice, & runs nearly everything you throw at it at the moment, is XP Pro.
Win 95 crashes & doesn't include USB support without a service pack. Win 98 is more stable, but even the 2cd edition suffers from harddisk size limitations & file corruptions.
Win ME crashes worse than 95 OR 98 & is half baked. XP Home doesn't do so well at times. Vista gives false reports & crashes when trying to do something as simple as copying 800 mb of mp3 from an mp3 player directly to a 1 gb flash drive. Unless you do it in batches...
XP handles it fine. Screw it! Microsoft is fixing to mess everything up. With older games that won't work even under compatibility mode in XP because of the need for true dos...
With ME Still being based on dos...
With XP requiring SP2 for some things, or breaking some apps that DO have SP2, or requiring SP3, or not working with some things that DO have SP3...
Add that to apps that require either .Net Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, or 3.6...
Factor in some games that will require DX-10 that is ONLY being made for Vista (Vista crashes & is based on Trusted Computing Platform, among other things...)
You have one huge mess that no-one is going to be able to fix any time soon.
Trust MS to do away with standards & introduce new, confusing things that no longer work to try to force you to buy newer OS than you really need because they want to make a few million more bucks.
Think how they are trying to do software. What would YOU do, if your car manufacturer did things the same way that Microsoft did & told you, "You did NOT buy the car, only the license to use it."
They tell you where you can drive it, when, & how far. The car frequently crashes, or messes up, & the only way the upgrades will work is with newer hardware that you have to pay for...
by: 2 Bad | 5 | 2008-10-15 | | | | "Crap"
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft doesn't give a crap about the "end user". If you have Vista congratulations you've been punked in a big way!!
by: Ian | 1 | 2008-01-13 | | | | "Great ISO"
THis one is not as large as the last one. It is for system administrators and not end users.
As far as what the last post is, you can look up the information at www.microsoft.com under security. These updates are important. Malware is everywhere and old software is still there. Malware programmers are trying to take out an OS that won't let them.
The more they try, the harder it will get. End users of this verstion called Vista are client or consumers. Not corperations.
by: Vista Lover | 5 | 2008-01-09 | | | | ""
Microsoft has completely taken the end user off of the equation for updating the
Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems.
The Redmond company has pushed a collection of 18 updates for both Vista and XP,
that installed on the operating systems not only without the users' consent,
but also without their knowledge.
The updates were downloaded and deployed through the Windows Updates.
Without any information being presented to the end users.
Microsoft is not delivering any information on the updates.
And the code is unavailable as a standalone download.
The Redmond company has also failed to officially comment on the issue.
Fact is, that Microsoft, via the Windows Update, has done so without user authorization,
and without bothering to provide any data.
This raises questions over what else the company has been doing to the users platforms
behind their backs.
Read it @ http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070913/#story1
by: My $0.02 | 1 | 2007-09-13 | | | | "THE END"
Microsoft killed the initiative designed to supply offline Windows updates.
The AutoPatcher project is dead, courtesy of Microsoft. Antonis Kaladis.
Taking AutoPatcher down is an illustrative example of Microsoft's policy.
The Redmond company aims to be the only online source for updates.
Microsoft failed to offer an official explanation related to the faith it decided for AutoPatcher
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