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Hate to burst your bubble but messenger is an abomination. Used to work fine
up till last year.Now it wont even open before it closes. Theres no point trying to video call anyone, its to frustrating. I just uninstalled then reinstalled 8.1 or whatever, exactlly the same. Sad because it was great when it worked, beat skype and voip handsdown. All the best, Cos. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse than windows ME! Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity. Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable interface with bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released. Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program. Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the things people really needed. Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows the same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a monster out of it. Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product that is good, IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8 The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will open up the doors to new developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service and joy to humanity in 2007. |
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Gerry wrote:
It makes me feel better to read all the negative comments because I absolutely HATE Vista and if I could return my computer and get my money back I would. Can anybody help me as far as word processing with Vista. I do not want to buy Office Point or whatever it is called. I just want tried and trusted Microsoft Word and I can't even figure out if it is in Vista. Help!! Try this: http://www.abisource.com/ It's free. Alias |
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I feel that Windows Vista's start menu is not very good as when you go to
"all programs", it does not brach out all softwares and its components like that of Windows XP, thus making it difficult for people who are not used to using the "search" function on the start menu. Also, Windows Vista can barely run on 1GB of RAM if it is using integrated graphics as only 20+ MB of the RAM is free even when the computer is doing nothing. Running Windows Vista on 1 Gb of RAM is like running Windows XP on 128 MB of RAM. I think that at least 1.5 GB or RAM is needed for Windows Vista, better still, 2GB of RAM. It is also common sense that Windows XP requires at least 256 MB of RAM to run smoothly. Microsoft thinks that the Aero transparency effects alone will attarct people to buy Windows Vista. The Aero effects can be easily achived on Windows XP with Stardock WindowsBlinds and Stardock's Windows Fx. These softwares cost only US$19.95 rather than the cost of Windows Vista. Looking at all these setbacks of Windows Vista, I feel that mainstream suport for Windows XP should not end in April 2009, but at least in 2010. There are also too many editions of Windows Vista, and their name make them even more confusing. In short, Windows XP Home Edition = Windows Vista Home Basic Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 = Windows Vista Home Premium Windows XP Professional = Windows Vista Business Editon Windows Vista Ultamate is new I feel that Windows Media Player 11 is quite a good software overall with all its album art support and organisation of the music library. The only setback is that it is a processor hogger. It will not run smoothly without a modern processor and with a mordern processor, it take up lots of RAM. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse OS Windows XP is the best OS Microsoft has ever made, and contrary to some wrong posts, this will still be available even after vista hits the stores. Browser AvantBrowser (www.avantbrowser.com) and firefox 2 . Note avantbrowser uses whatever IE rendering engine you have, it falls into the category of a "shell" however the interface is light-years ahead of IE7. Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS office2003 Email client you can use outlook express 6 that is clean and simple, outlook2003, or thunderbird that can handle rss and newsgroups too. Media Player GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com (this is the best video player ever!) and for audio winamp Dont eat whatever they want to give you. Experiment, learn, and find the applications that you think are best. You are free to choose. "Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message ... Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse than windows ME! Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity. Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable interface with bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released. Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program. Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the things people really needed. Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows the same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a monster out of it. Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product that is good, IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8 The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will open up the doors to new developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service and joy to humanity in 2007. |
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I feel that Windows Vista's start menu is not very good as when you go to
"all programs", it does not brach out all softwares and its components like that of Windows XP, thus making it difficult for people who are not used to using the "search" function on the start menu. To me, its a lot better, more organized and functional. On my XP parition, the cascading All Programs is divided into "Columns", finding Microsoft Word or Photoshop is like going on an expedition (no pun intended). With Vista, I simply type Word or Photoshop and press Enter on my keyboard the desired program opens right up. My files and programs are more accessible, they are right there at my finger tips, I can focus more on my work instead of trying to find a a particular program or waste time alphabetizing the All Programs menu to make it easier to find things. Search is such a natural thing for most folks, so your point about people not being use to the Search function in Vista very irrelevant. We Google everyday, we search for our car keys, we like finding things, Vista makes that easy, its doing all the work for you. I am sorry you are missing nostalgia of XP of looking throug multiple columns of program groups to find an application, but people need to get work done and thats what Search integrated into the Vista Start menu does. --------- Also, Windows Vista can barely run on 1GB of RAM if it is using integrated graphics as only 20+ MB of the RAM is free even when the computer is doing nothing. Running Windows Vista on 1 Gb of RAM is like running Windows XP on 128 MB of RAM. I think that at least 1.5 GB or RAM is needed for Windows Vista, better still, 2GB of RAM. It is also common sense that Windows XP requires at least 256 MB of RAM to run smoothly. Depends on what you are doing with OS, Vista loves RAM, so the more you give it, the better it performs. So I do agree that 2 GBs would be a recommended amount, since you need to allocate to the operating system in addition applications you might be using. ---------- Microsoft thinks that the Aero transparency effects alone will attarct people to buy Windows Vista. The Aero effects can be easily achived on Windows XP with Stardock WindowsBlinds and Stardock's Windows Fx. These softwares cost only US$19.95 rather than the cost of Windows Vista. Vista is more than Aero, there are lots of built in tools that make Vista a great experience, Instant Search capabilities, enhanced Security, Multimedia, 64-bit computing, Speech, Tablet PC, improve Group Policy editor improved deployment and tighter integration with the Web through new features such as Sidebar Gadgets and Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Included in Vista are new under the hood features such as Windows Presentation and Communication Foundations and a new version of the .NET Framework for creating powerful, connected and more secure applications. And much, much more. Looking at all these setbacks of Windows Vista, I feel that mainstream suport for Windows XP should not end in April 2009, but at least in 2010. There are also too many editions of Windows Vista, and their name make them even more confusing. In short, --------------- Windows XP Support will not end until 2009 actually, it just depends on the Edition. But XP has been around since August 2001, it would be too much for Company even for Microsoft with their resources to continue supporting multiple operating systems, since a lot of that support could invest in improving Windows Vista and contribute to development of future technologies and versions of Windows. ------------ Windows XP Home Edition = Windows Vista Home Basic Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 = Windows Vista Home Premium Windows XP Professional = Windows Vista Business Editon Windows Vista Ultamate is new Windows Vista is available in multiple editions to meet the needs of different individuals, not everybody wants or needs Tablet PC, MCE, All Language Interface technologies. The SKU list is simple for most users, if you go to a store, you are most likely to see four editions of Vista on the shelf: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate. Enterprise edition is only available to EA/SA agreements, Starter Edition through new PCs in developing markets. Most users can read the product package and choose the edition thats right for them. No one is forcing you to go for Ultimate or Home Basic, no one is forcing you to move from XP actually. I feel that Windows Media Player 11 is quite a good software overall with all its album art support and organisation of the music library. The only setback is that it is a processor hogger. It will not run smoothly without a modern processor and with a mordern processor, it take up lots of RAM. ------ Haven't had that experience. -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry "xxx_" wrote in message ... I feel that Windows Vista's start menu is not very good as when you go to "all programs", it does not brach out all softwares and its components like that of Windows XP, thus making it difficult for people who are not used to using the "search" function on the start menu. Also, Windows Vista can barely run on 1GB of RAM if it is using integrated graphics as only 20+ MB of the RAM is free even when the computer is doing nothing. Running Windows Vista on 1 Gb of RAM is like running Windows XP on 128 MB of RAM. I think that at least 1.5 GB or RAM is needed for Windows Vista, better still, 2GB of RAM. It is also common sense that Windows XP requires at least 256 MB of RAM to run smoothly. Microsoft thinks that the Aero transparency effects alone will attarct people to buy Windows Vista. The Aero effects can be easily achived on Windows XP with Stardock WindowsBlinds and Stardock's Windows Fx. These softwares cost only US$19.95 rather than the cost of Windows Vista. Looking at all these setbacks of Windows Vista, I feel that mainstream suport for Windows XP should not end in April 2009, but at least in 2010. There are also too many editions of Windows Vista, and their name make them even more confusing. In short, Windows XP Home Edition = Windows Vista Home Basic Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 = Windows Vista Home Premium Windows XP Professional = Windows Vista Business Editon Windows Vista Ultamate is new I feel that Windows Media Player 11 is quite a good software overall with all its album art support and organisation of the music library. The only setback is that it is a processor hogger. It will not run smoothly without a modern processor and with a mordern processor, it take up lots of RAM. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse OS Windows XP is the best OS Microsoft has ever made, and contrary to some wrong posts, this will still be available even after vista hits the stores. Browser AvantBrowser (www.avantbrowser.com) and firefox 2 . Note avantbrowser uses whatever IE rendering engine you have, it falls into the category of a "shell" however the interface is light-years ahead of IE7. Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS office2003 Email client you can use outlook express 6 that is clean and simple, outlook2003, or thunderbird that can handle rss and newsgroups too. Media Player GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com (this is the best video player ever!) and for audio winamp Dont eat whatever they want to give you. Experiment, learn, and find the applications that you think are best. You are free to choose. "Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message ... Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse than windows ME! Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity. Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable interface with bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released. Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program. Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the things people really needed. Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows the same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a monster out of it. Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product that is good, IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8 The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will open up the doors to new developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service and joy to humanity in 2007. |
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ahhh... I should update that post to worse software of 2007
"xxx_" wrote in message ... I feel that Windows Vista's start menu is not very good as when you go to "all programs", it does not brach out all softwares and its components like that of Windows XP, thus making it difficult for people who are not used to using the "search" function on the start menu. Also, Windows Vista can barely run on 1GB of RAM if it is using integrated graphics as only 20+ MB of the RAM is free even when the computer is doing nothing. Running Windows Vista on 1 Gb of RAM is like running Windows XP on 128 MB of RAM. I think that at least 1.5 GB or RAM is needed for Windows Vista, better still, 2GB of RAM. It is also common sense that Windows XP requires at least 256 MB of RAM to run smoothly. Microsoft thinks that the Aero transparency effects alone will attarct people to buy Windows Vista. The Aero effects can be easily achived on Windows XP with Stardock WindowsBlinds and Stardock's Windows Fx. These softwares cost only US$19.95 rather than the cost of Windows Vista. Looking at all these setbacks of Windows Vista, I feel that mainstream suport for Windows XP should not end in April 2009, but at least in 2010. There are also too many editions of Windows Vista, and their name make them even more confusing. In short, Windows XP Home Edition = Windows Vista Home Basic Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 = Windows Vista Home Premium Windows XP Professional = Windows Vista Business Editon Windows Vista Ultamate is new I feel that Windows Media Player 11 is quite a good software overall with all its album art support and organisation of the music library. The only setback is that it is a processor hogger. It will not run smoothly without a modern processor and with a mordern processor, it take up lots of RAM. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse OS Windows XP is the best OS Microsoft has ever made, and contrary to some wrong posts, this will still be available even after vista hits the stores. Browser AvantBrowser (www.avantbrowser.com) and firefox 2 . Note avantbrowser uses whatever IE rendering engine you have, it falls into the category of a "shell" however the interface is light-years ahead of IE7. Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS office2003 Email client you can use outlook express 6 that is clean and simple, outlook2003, or thunderbird that can handle rss and newsgroups too. Media Player GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com (this is the best video player ever!) and for audio winamp Dont eat whatever they want to give you. Experiment, learn, and find the applications that you think are best. You are free to choose. "Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message ... Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse than windows ME! Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity. Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable interface with bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released. Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program. Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the things people really needed. Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows the same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a monster out of it. Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product that is good, IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8 The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will open up the doors to new developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service and joy to humanity in 2007. |
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You can always start a new thread in a different group but you might add the
words NOT YET SP1 or SP2 so add 2007-2008 like this WORST SOFTWARE OF 2007-2008 NOT YET SP1 or SP2 All it does for me is gets me a faster machine, more HD space, big LCD monitor, (removed the modem and KEYS of it in the registry), and a better feeling about sitting here for hours upon hours while the world goes around but I really don't like the pink Windows Mail window and would like to see different themes for that like a set of new skins to select from cause that pink spot distracts my eye each time I glance up. Along with a Back-UPS XS to connect it to and a better Wireless G Broadband Router and soon to remove the Cable Co's Cable Modem to buy my own. Aside from problems I don't yet understand I feel great to have this as my companion, not some small device I could sit on or drop out of my pocket or worst yet it get run over by a car and then where would I be. "teyebeareeus" wrote in message ... ahhh... I should update that post to worse software of 2007 "xxx_" wrote in message ... I feel that Windows Vista's start menu is not very good as when you go to "all programs", it does not brach out all softwares and its components like that of Windows XP, thus making it difficult for people who are not used to using the "search" function on the start menu. Also, Windows Vista can barely run on 1GB of RAM if it is using integrated graphics as only 20+ MB of the RAM is free even when the computer is doing nothing. Running Windows Vista on 1 Gb of RAM is like running Windows XP on 128 MB of RAM. I think that at least 1.5 GB or RAM is needed for Windows Vista, better still, 2GB of RAM. It is also common sense that Windows XP requires at least 256 MB of RAM to run smoothly. Microsoft thinks that the Aero transparency effects alone will attarct people to buy Windows Vista. The Aero effects can be easily achived on Windows XP with Stardock WindowsBlinds and Stardock's Windows Fx. These softwares cost only US$19.95 rather than the cost of Windows Vista. Looking at all these setbacks of Windows Vista, I feel that mainstream suport for Windows XP should not end in April 2009, but at least in 2010. There are also too many editions of Windows Vista, and their name make them even more confusing. In short, Windows XP Home Edition = Windows Vista Home Basic Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 = Windows Vista Home Premium Windows XP Professional = Windows Vista Business Editon Windows Vista Ultamate is new I feel that Windows Media Player 11 is quite a good software overall with all its album art support and organisation of the music library. The only setback is that it is a processor hogger. It will not run smoothly without a modern processor and with a mordern processor, it take up lots of RAM. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse OS Windows XP is the best OS Microsoft has ever made, and contrary to some wrong posts, this will still be available even after vista hits the stores. Browser AvantBrowser (www.avantbrowser.com) and firefox 2 . Note avantbrowser uses whatever IE rendering engine you have, it falls into the category of a "shell" however the interface is light-years ahead of IE7. Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS office2003 Email client you can use outlook express 6 that is clean and simple, outlook2003, or thunderbird that can handle rss and newsgroups too. Media Player GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com (this is the best video player ever!) and for audio winamp Dont eat whatever they want to give you. Experiment, learn, and find the applications that you think are best. You are free to choose. "Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message ... Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse than windows ME! Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity. Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable interface with bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released. Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program. Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the things people really needed. Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows the same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a monster out of it. Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product that is good, IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8 The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will open up the doors to new developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service and joy to humanity in 2007. |
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Working as Microsoft customer service all i heard was how vista sucks, now I have it and love it. I think its more the opertors. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse than windows ME! Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity. Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable interface with bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released. Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program. Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the things people really needed. Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows the same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a monster out of it. Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product that is good, IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8 The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will open up the doors to new developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service and joy to humanity in 2007. |
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If your spelling is any indication, you love it because Vista was aimed at
your demographic group. "court" wrote in message ... Working as Microsoft customer service all i heard was how vista sucks, now I have it and love it. I think its more the opertors. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: ---------------------------------- Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. |
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"Not Me" wrote: If your spelling is any indication, you love it because Vista was aimed at your demographic group. "court" wrote in message ... Working as Microsoft customer service all i heard was how vista sucks, now I have it and love it. I think its more the opertors. "Red nosed reindeer" wrote: ---------------------------------- Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer greatly with this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague them for years. |
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