raymerjacque wrote:none the less.
No matter what you do, or how hard you try, or whatever excuse you come up with, or how much you hate it, anyway you look at it, VISTA IS HERE NOW, there is nothing you can do to stop it from taking over the market or making it's place in the world, XP IS ON IT'S WAY OUT, and there is nothing you can do to stop it either, by the end of this year vista will be the main operating system in use by the general public, especialy when vista sp1 is launched, those that have not bought are waiting for the compatibility and bug fix patch IE sp1. by the end of the year you will have lost 80% of your users here on this board because only a handfull will be living in the past .....
besides, i don't understand the harm in making a framework for vista ? , is it laziness or lack of the operating system knowledge ? . does it not make sense to make a framework so long so that the users like me can start working on driverpacks ?
and please if you give objections then give some valid arguements, not just "vista sucks" bla bla bla crap.
I would be happy to start working on support for vista drivers, BUT....
1) How long will it be before there are enough drivers released to even call it a "Driverpack"?
2) How is this request any different then all the requests for a continued Windows 98 update pack?
3) Do you have any idea HOW MANY PC's are still running Windows 98?
4) Someone donates a full licensed copy of Vista for me to work with, learn from.
4b) Do you think my 5 year old AMD SLOT A 750 will even boot Vista? (NO)
4c) The donated copy of Vista needs to come installed on a machine that will RUN Vista.
WHEN MS releases the first Servicepack, What makes you think they will not change the way driver loading is setup and invalidate all the work done on a new OS in it's infancy.
I've already had my PM box flodded on 2 forums with requests for Vista support for pebuilder, which will be at least a year down the road, if anyone is actually still using Vista at that point???
Remember what came before XP & after W98?... Thats right, Windows ME (Mistake Edition).
There were so many people posting just like you are now about how it was the best thing since sliced bread, yet now, anyone with a brain who got stuck using Windows ME, have either upgraded to XP, or dropped back down to W98, which despite the lack of support is still being used on hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.
You used 2009 as the year Vista will be KING??? Still Agree???
My favorite Read so far was nick-named "The longest Suicide note in history" which is an outline of Vista's DRM crap, which has been met with so much resistance, that MS is already changing the way it works and the ELUA based on the fact that every major corporation on the world said NO NO NO, we are not switching no matter how cheap you sell us a stie license for.
MANY, and I do mean MANY corporations are still useing Windows 2000 in the infrastructure, because it is as solid as a rock. period. They have not even switched to 2k3 yet, so what is it that makes you think Vista will not simply be another giant flop from Microsoft?
DISCLAINER: I represent no one, This is my opinion alone and means no more then yours does. Everyone is welcomed to there opinions, but lashing out at others because you dont like what you hear will only get more responces just like this one.
I've not tried Vista, Will not try Vista, Have no machine that will even run vista. I still have a multiboot option to load Windows 98 (did you guess that?) because I've got some really nice hardware that never got supported in XP, which is the same thing MS has done again with vista, left out a lot of hardware that is really good, but old enought that no one will be spending the money to re-construct new drivers for Vista to support 5 year old hardware.
(Also known as a sewer for those who don't get the joke.) 