Windows Vista Reminds Me of Windows 98
Written on June 24, 2007 – 5:17 pm | by gaulardcom |
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I told you a few weeks ago that I purchased a laptop and a desktop, both with Windows Vista as the operating system.
I heard it from all angles during my purchase process. The most frequent argument I heard was, “Don’t get a computer with Vista on it…nothing works with it yet.” I love that argument, mainly because I heard the exact same words as I was purchasing a computer with Windows XP installed on it. When I buy things, I tend to purchase what’s going to be popular, not what currently is popular. When I asked the people what doesn’t work with Vista, not one of them had an answer for me. The most common answer was, “I don’t know.” Well, that makes sense. It was almost like one person out in this big world said that nothing works with Vista very loudly and everyone heard it.
Just to let you know, the only thing that didn’t work with Vista was my Quickbooks 2004 program. Everything else is fine.
Bugs…after a few weeks now, working with the operating system, I find that the computer (mainly my desktop, because that’s what I tend to work on) needs to be rebooted every so often. It could be every few hours, if I use it a lot or every few days. It doesn’t run for months like XP did. I seem to remember me having to do this with my old version of Windows 98.
There are a few other little bugs that will most likely be cleared up with updates, but the most annoying one is the restart.
My advice is to go ahead and get Vista. Don’t be one of those people who overthinks these things and gets stuck with a brand new computer that has an aging operating system installed on it for the next few years.
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3 Responses to “Windows Vista Reminds Me of Windows 98”
By Jake Boden on Jun 25, 2007 | Reply
I couldn’t agree more. I have had the same kind of minor issues with every new version of Windows. Windows 95 had minor compatablity and driver issues. Windows 98 same thing, XP same thing. The only OS that I can think of that did not have any real transition issues was Windows 2000, although there were a few things that had problems with NTFS at that time. I wonder if the internet had been as big and powerful years ago when Windows 95 came out what would have been said. I can only imagine how negative things would have been.
By Vista tips and tricks on Jun 27, 2007 | Reply
It seems that I am one of the few people that did not have any problem with windows vista…
By sherry on Sep 27, 2007 | Reply
nothing works with Vista. I could name it all but I keep finding new things. The latest today is the Intel chipset detection utilty. Yesterday was the Win media recorder and U tube grabber. Before that it was Blueberry screen recorder before that it was the wirelss networking drivers. I finally fixed that but I cant take it anymore. I have an expensive laptop that all I can do is surf the net. I tried to get more advice from my place of purchase but when I went into the computer store the salesman was sleeping against the pole. I was the only customer in the store and felt bad waking him up. He told me to wait six months for MS to release another operating system. Should I wait or just go buy an Apple?