> Did they even release a service pack for ME? Would not have mattered. It is, IMHO, the suckiest M$ OS released in mass. A M$ tech told me it was pre-XP that was not really ready for prime-time. But some marketing shirt felt M$ needed to do something for the new millennium, and it got pushed out into the wild - ready or not. The only machines that ran fairly well with ME were PCs that it came on oem (much like early XP and Vista OS). But what told the whole story was M$'s own web site that used to cater to bug reports and support for ME, where with the advent of 2000 Pro M$ stated any remaining ME problems ought to be remedied by upgrading to 2000 Pro!
In fairness 2000 Pro had issues in its early release (mostly drivers and needing lots of RAM), XP did the same with driver and RAM demands, much like Vista. And with the impending SPs 2000 and XP became fine OS platforms to use (once we all added RAM, got new drivers, etc.). And at least these platforms were more stable than their previous flavors of 9x and ME, and brought new features that were needed. But with Vista I still do not see the point. It is no more stable than 2000 or XP Pro, and once the UAC is "set up" to let an End User actually get use from the PC it is not any more resistant to attacks than 2000 or XP. It is maybe slickerier looking than 2000 Pro, not much more so than XP, but the RAM demands and performance hit just does not make for a good case to move to it. The only good case for moving to Vista is because XP is going to go away. Soon. So, what to do. I got my first taste of Ubuntu Desktop v-7.1 this morning. Perhaps with VFP apps I can't (legally, maybe) move to Linux. But for folks asking me what to do with the Vista Problem, and have no XP drivers for new PCs, I think I found a viable solution <g>... Gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Vista SP1 released to manufacturing. Did they even release a service pack for ME? --- Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Madigan wrote: > > > What it really shows is that you should never, > never, > > never buy a Microsoft OS before at least SP1. > > I can't think of a MS product where this hasn't been > the case: > > Windows 95, 98, NT, 2K, and XP needed at least 2 or > 3 post-releases > before the OS was usable. > > XBox sucked at first. > > VFP 3, while breaking new ground, wasn't usable. > > on and on... > > Paul > > -- > http://paulmcnett.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
