[Major Payne]

A mother, who is frustrated with the Vista operating system, told her
tale to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a conference.


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Ron

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A mother, who is frustrated with the Vista operating system, told her
tale to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a conference.


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Ron

Ron:

Thanks for an interesting read: Very educational and also quite informative - Vista is still new, and of course, Ballmer wants to sell the OS to her mom, but as I have learned, with Each new OS, there are problems that have to be worked out. I recently helped my mom upgrade to Vista Home Premium, and she and I are learning the ropes together. I even helped mom back up and move her files, and now, I have her old machine here, and will hold her files till she says to wipe them out completely - Only took about 2 hours to do that

Brian

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A mother, who is frustrated with the Vista operating system, told her
tale to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a conference.


More...


Ron

Ron:

Thanks for an interesting read: Very educational and also quite informative - Vista is still new, and of course, Ballmer wants to sell the OS to her mom, but as I have learned, with Each new OS, there are problems that have to be worked out. I recently helped my mom upgrade to Vista Home Premium, and she and I are learning the ropes together. I even helped mom back up and move her files, and now, I have her old machine here, and will hold her files till she says to wipe them out completely - Only took about 2 hours to do that

Brian

[Tal]

"Let's start with the end user. Your daughter saw a lot of value," said Ballmer.

"She's 13," Genovese shot back.

Ballmer also said that Vista is bigger than XP, and "for some people that's an issue, and it's not going to get smaller in any significant way in SP1. But machines are constantly getting bigger, and [it's] probably important to remember that as well."

"Good, I'll let you come in and install it for me," said Genovese.

I think I'll do the same as Mrs. Genovese

Edited by landlord, 16 October 2007 - 03:11 PM.

[Major Payne]

Just from this article, it seemed Ballmer did all the talking and the only challenge from Ms. Yvonne Genovese wasn't sufficient enough to cover all the problems I'm sure she had with Vista.

Ballmer may have given two big corporations as examples of users of Vista, but it is the average user that is using Windows XP right now and are seeing no benefit to upgrading from a stable system with few problems to one that has not even been completed. Many do not want to upgrade their computer to be able to run Vista like XP is running now on their computers.

Micro$oft is about money and not about helping the average consumer get the best O/S there is. I could go on and on, but suffice it to say, people do not want Vista at this time. Micro$oft's lawsuit over their "phone home" WGA shows they are not to be trusted in anything they say.

Ron

[Tal]

Well, his point that 'like all Operating Systems, Vista needs new and better hardware' is a little bit off in my opinion. Windows XP didn't need any more than 256 MB RAM, which was about twice than the recommended amount of memory for Win98. Vista needs 2 GB to operate flawlessly. That's kind off exaggerated, don't you think?

My computer is excellent, and I am not going to waste half of my system resources just to get a slow operating systems. I'm happy with a Vista style XP for now.