> This is what scares me about Vista. Of the half-dozen people I know > who are running it, every one of them are having problems. Most of them > are having trouble running Eudora on Vista.
This is Eudora's fault, not MS'. It's beholden on them to make sure their software works on the OS. God knows they had enough lead time with all of the RCs and betas. > They're also having trouble with AVG/Vista. I run AVG on Vista Business. Zero problems. > I have a realtor friend whose "lock box" won't update nightly as it did on her XP machine. Without knowing what exactly this is, who knows why? But, the permission model on Vista is different from XP. Microsoft announced this loudly and often to the development community during the beta testing period. Why didn't the mfr of the lock box update their software? > I finally had the opportunity to actually sit in front of a Vista > machine last night. I was trying to help someone move some files from an XP > machine via a memory stick. The only "instruction manual" she got with > the new Vista machine was a huge fold-out "how to hook up" type of thing. 1. Plug into a USB port. 2. Use it. Seriously, what is the issue here, other than user error or ignorance? > I've advised her to go buy "Vista For Dummies"--there must BE one I'm sure there is. I bought the Missing Mac manual a few years ago. > I think MS figures everyone who buys this OS is too dumb to want to > transfer anything. They've dumbed it down to the point where I can't > even find where they've hidden everything. That is your first legitimate complaint. Unfortunately, this is not limited to Vista. Too many companies dumb down the interface, or gunk it up with bogus choices, to the point where you can't get at the guts to fix what went wrong with their crappy software (or do what you want to do -- "Thanks, but I've got it from here."). > We are not ALL computer geeks. We've mostly come along with the > various OS's since Win95. Now we're facing a huge learning curve, unlike any > other that MS has hit us with before. I don't think there is a HUGE learning curve, but there are changes. Some make sense, some don't. I'm used to it now for the most part, but for something I don't do all that often I have to dig into the memory heap for a minute. And the changes from 3.1 to 95 and from 98 to XP were ginormous compared to XP to Vista. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
