Tero Pesonen wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2007, James Knott wrote:
ould be a problem to many others though.
FWIW, a friend has an IBM ThinkPad, that came loaded with Windows 98.
A couple of years ago, she upgraded to XP and found she could no longer
play video DVDs. After some checking, we found that she has to buy the
necessary software, from a web site that's very irritating and
difficult to navigate through. She decided against providing her
credit card info and went without DVD video playback. Another issue is
when you install such things, you often get a load of crapware along
with it. So, it is not always so easy for Windows users either.
interesting. This was new to me.
Most people who use Windows are sheltered from reality, because they
don't have to install anything to get the hardware working and as long
as they stick with the original OS intall, they don't have a problem. I
was recently reading an article, by someone who was trying to install
the boxed version of Windows XP on a notebook. One problem, among
others, was that the NIC wasn't supported. He'd have to go to a web
site to download the drivers. If he hadn't had another computer
available, he wouldn't have been able to get the drivers, to enable
networking. As for the crapware, that's par for the course for
Windows. Dell recently announced they're going to sell systems without
it, but according to the same article I mentioned above, when they
bought a new Toshiba computer, it was already loaded with with crapware!
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