first of all sir. your mistake, through out this thread, is the assumption of information and my view points without asking me what i mean.
Your self serving desire to be right vastly underminds any attempt at valuable conversation. But blah blah, ripping into is a waste of my time.
Just know that your approach was flawed unless all you wanna do is " own and crush " as which point you win sir cause i have better things
to do then argue about things that your not understanding.
So here we go.
I dont read forums, i take my knowledge from in field evaluation. I talk with real technicians who actually work with these issues. And oh yea, i am one of those technicians that has run into these problems in the field myself. So your evaluation that its " nerds on forums " that compare vista to winME is crushed and completed owned. Thank you have nice day. I dont care what certs you pull out of your ass, i dont care the petistal your e-penis whispers in your ear and tells you your on, your not fucking god of MS and OS's. Fact. Vista has been indeed been modified from its original design plans to meet a deadline much in the way that winME was. So therefore a comparison between the two and their failure to meet promised and expected performance and feature levels is valid.If you're reading one of the many forums full of nerds who whine about every last software release from every last vendor on the planet then yes, you could probably find some of them comparing Vista to ME. That said, it doesn't make that information any more correct. If you Google hard enough you can find a group of nerds whining about pretty much anything. You state you're a technician though and should know how to spot BS information such as the quote you just made. If you know anything about the built-in compatibility mode at all then most of those problems can be solved with a few mouse clicks. Most major antivirus vendors have Vista compatible software out already but you're right, older versions aren't going to work. But then again, any technician worth his salt knows that AV products should stay updated and that older software versions are more prone to errors and incompatibility.
Now, as far as your claims that AV software and popular tax software and many other front running tools of everyday ( this is a important part here so note it on your textpad) use to the average user do indeed NOT work. Yes, its all nice that these little docs you read claim they do, but you get out in the field my friend and tell me how well norton works, or how most of the tax software doesnt work or how the games crash and how the OS blue screens when your install wireless adapters infront of my fucking eyes and the only response from the companies is " we dont support vista but we are working on it ". If you are arguing against this FACT, then you sir are full of complete shit and apprentlly worth less salt then you your ego tells you. Next.
See this is where you become clear to me. for a man that talks so much about people who claim they are MS certified and how much they arent worth, you sure due quote a lot text on how things SHOULD run vs real world application. Any technician worth his salt would know "/rolls eyes" that whats written on the pretty little article from MS on how things should work, doesnt mean that when its put together on a machine doing REAL WORLD multitasking, that these things function as well as the little pdf file you downloaded claim. But thank you for validating that it does indeed run slower.Aero is an entirely new interface which renders everything in 3D. OF COURSE its going to take up more memory but if you have 1-2GB of RAM it shouldn't really matter. It has far better caching and memory management than XP does and makes better use of unused system memory. On decent hardware it will run just as quickly as XP will. I support Vista on a test bed and am currently running it at home and on my system at my main network and notice no difference in speed. Office 2007, on hte other hand, seems clunky still compared to 2003 but thats a different topic.
Oh im sorry, the patcher is done and my desire to blast you has left. Its just gonna take too much time to properly put you in your place, to validate mine, to admit you have this point right and that point wrong and that i have this right and maybe that wrong. I got better things to do /shrug.
Look man, i respect you usually, but you have been nothing but a cunt in this thread. You need to back off your little high horse and do some more real world interaction on multiple hardware platforms and lay off the text so much. There is much in this thread you said thats valid and you probably got me on a few points, but fact is your piss poor representation and desire to place me in a inferior position negates the true worth of a discussion like this. Learning.
But hey man, no worries. If you cant get past me crushing you in this thread and leaving you wanting more, ill talk to you in another thread that isnt as boring to me due to the choice of your communication style.
Peace !
On to vanguard weeee !!2112!
" but I am an IT manager and lead consultant for 3 corporate networks and assign tasks to techs like you every day, so don't even start on "talking with people who actually work on issues". My own certs were only brought up to clarify that I have them and still don't think they're worth anything without experience to back them.
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