>Remember, you can format and reinstall in 2 hours. Or have an image >from a week ago restored. But if you screw around chatting about >removal, it will take *days*.
That is only true if you have all the drivers you think you have. Interesting story in ComputerWorld about Vista driver woes. "Vista's Driver Ills Aren't Just Microsoft's Fault." Despite the title, the main point of the story is that the driver problems are due to a deep seated strategic error made by MS. OS changes frequently break drivers and MS makes it hard for vendors to keep drivers up to date by not supplying information or a stable release to test with. In addition, keeping old drivers updated is not economic. The article does not draw the contrast with Apple who provides detailed specifications for drivers. If vendors stick to the specs their drivers won't break. (This is a little less true now with the jerks Apple has working on OS X. They rarely bother to follow Apple's own documentation.) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
