[mdlug] Semi-OT: Another BIG WinVista misstep

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Robert Adkins

> The really lovely thing about that is the damned thing can't read the 
> driver off of anything other than a Floppy Disk. (At least with Windows 
> XP), when was the last time you saw a new PC ship with a floppy disk?

 I've heard that Vista can, at least, read drivers and such from less
antiquated media, like thumb drives. Microsoft isn't always stupid -
sometimes they're just comically incompetent or occasionally evil. :->

> > */Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com>/* wrote:

> >  ...yet I continue to hear "WinVista is the greatest thing since sliced
> >  bread!" from people that SHOULD know better. I hope Linux is "ready
> >  for the masses" soon, or our entire computing infrastructure may
> >  collapse.

 Well, Vista isn't selling all that well. Dell had to back off and offer
XP as a choice to consumers again:

 http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/19/202251

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                            (313) 227-2317

 "Banking and T.V. are both industries which I've worked in, in which
  customers actually demand quality. If it's crap, they won't buy it
  no matter how cheap it is. Funny enough, Microsoft is not in either
       business - and not for lack of trying." - Steven Maurer

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