Gadgets & Tech – Remember I told you that Microsoft said that in order to get Windows Vista SP1 next month, you had to have certain prerequisite patches installed? While that's true, some users installing those patches haven't been too happy.
This is another reason (as I posted before) why I don't want MS VISTA. too many bugs, patches, glitches, etc. to be worth my while.
When (if ever) MS says they have a system that has no problems, can't be hacked, and needs no upgrades, I'll buy it. It took me over a year to get all the crap and downloads for my XP system working right, so maybe I'll just wait for the MS Malinnium Edition in 2010.
Vista kills me...they wrote an OS that is supposed to be based on DX10 which requires hardware support for certain things(pixel and vertex shaders specifically). I figured it would be a good thing because it would force companies to provide at least a certain minimum amount hardware that SHOULD be on every new computer. Laptop and desktop alike. To go along with this paradigm, MS even removed the functionality to detect if this hardware is present - since it is required to be present, why allow programmers to detect if it's actually present? Makes sense.
Well...my wife bought a laptop with vista on it and it turns out that the hardware I mentioned is not present. I'm a software developer and this makes my life more difficult. There are machines that do not have hardware I expect and I have no way of detecting that it is not present. Great....
thanks MS!
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