Vista compatability: Still dead on arrival

Funny Site...

Really funny. I just went there and guess what? It is working and there are all sorts of peripheral items listed in various categories, but Vista must not work with any computer desktops or laptops.... they don't list that as a category and if I enter any of the models my family has, I just get monitors to show up.

Glad I run Ubuntu.

XP for Seniors 55 and up

As a senior my learning curve with new software is limited. Sure I started in the CIS area back in 1969 with attempting to learn COBOL and Fortran as well as selling accounting computers after the military and graduate school. But while I can reason fairly well in concepts, I just never have been good at learning software directions. Of course now days children are learning about computers in grade school, where we didn't even have electronic adding machines until I was out of graduate school.

You know I have systems with Windows 95 and 98 on them because it took me long enough to learn them and they worked fine for typing letters and publications. Also the Winn 800 publisher proofing laser printer never was upgraded to work with systems above Window 98. And in 18 years I've only replaced a toner cartridge of black ink 3x at a cost of $55 a cartridge for the Winn 800. Now for a HP black laser in less than a year I am into my second cartridge, which I buy wholesale at about $20 some dollars.And as a senior I need to watch every cent I spend in my semi-retirement at 63 years.

Now as I am Chairman of the Board of our small corporation and remember the victory gardens and my parents talk about how it was in the Great Depression. Which I bring up as the example of what problems investment banks and other banks have taken us to... at least a possible another Great Depression in the 2000's.

Note: I sold securities and was member of NASD while in graduate school and I am afraid I see too many similarities between the 30's and our present recession. Both had problems with banks and people losing jobs as well as their homes.

So while I can't program or learn new software easily and never did, I did manage to learn XP good enough to type a letter with the help of Office 2003.

18 Reasons Why Vista is Bad News

I personally believe that companies take on personalities over time, and they unwittingly conducts themselves in keeping with their personality without even being aware of the personality.

If MS was a person, I think a good candidate would be Mr. Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies. His every waking thought is how to get someone else's money, he is fake nice to your face but scheming against you behind your back, and he has no interest in providing any value or service to you, he just wants to spin you to get your money.

Does an ad campaign, and the withdrawal of XP, suddenly make Vista any less a shipwreck than it already is? Of course not. Here's my issues with MS and Vista for starters:

http://darkbrownhole.blogspot.com/2008/07/does-vista-really-need-great-ad.html