On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > We have quite a few VFP9 SP2 systems running on Win7 now with no problems. We > did not make one change in our program to > accomodate Win7 vs XP pro. Vista is crap, but so far, Win7 seems to be ok. In > fact, we are now telling people that Win7 > works ok, the only thing we suggest is a minimum of 4gb memory. I admit we > are really gun-shy after having to deal with > VistaCrap - easily the worst OS since ME if you can even call it a OS. I > guess M$ shelled out a few dollars to do some > testing before they threw Win7 at the public. Nice, for a change. ---------------------------
Pretty sure that the the driver vendors were at fault, in that they thought that their new drivers were good enough. As I remember it was video card drivers the most lacking, and the substitutions they made were to the least feature rich driver. Printers were terrible as well. Drivers for projectors were probably 3rd in worst case. The OS needs all of those working and little to no substitutions that the drivers pick. It took over a year to get all those vendors into a quality space. Unfortunately that time frame was brutal for the brand Vista. Did M$ know that it wasn't correct and kept the name as Vista knowing that the problems forthcoming would only damage the brand name Windows? Not sure. I got into Vista after 6 months of use letting a lot of the driver bugs shake out. When W7 was available I jumped on it and have been happy ever since. Drivers are the key folks. When I played with Ubuntu 9.10 I found crummy substitutions in their driver selection as well, so it is not just one thing that acts incorrectly it is the driver industry as a whole, not the OS companies. YMMV -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ 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.
