XS11E
Fri, 14 Apr 2017
19:33:35 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:11:55 -0700, XS11E
wrote:

philo wrote:

Before the service packs , Vista was essentially unusable.

Never had a problem with Vista, it worked perfectly from the
first RTM until I replaced it.

You're not the only one who said something similar here, and I'm
glad to see that I'm not the only one.

The biggest problem with Vista was MSFT said it required 1/2 the
ROM it actually needed to run at a reasonable speed, HP, Dell,
etc. all delivered systems with insufficient ROM based on MSFTs
specs.

The second problem was that some peripherals wouldn't work, I had
to replace my scanner others had to replace printers, etc. to use
Vista and that irked folks.

Why wouldn't it irk people. You had perfectly good hardware that
thanks to a single software update (the os itself) either no longer
worked at all, or worked marginally from that point forward. All due
to MS lack of interest in providing drivers for the hardware
components that MS was surely aware many still used. There was no
reason vista couldn't have supported those hardware components. MS
took the lazy way out on this.

Personally, I liked it, it was the last OS that allowed classic
menus, etc. w/o needing Classic Shell to make it usable for me.

Did you ever run it in a networked environment? It was a dog there.
And, I don't mean a loyal one.




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