Vista Driver Requests

Nicholas Andrade wrote:
It's truely amazing how many people actually expect companies like Dell
& IBM to support beta versions of Vista. I'm beginning to think that
the claim that Google calling all their products "beta" when they're
borderline production quality has watered down term may actually be
true. From a programmer's perspective, the changes between XP in Vista
internally are definitely not trivial. There are far more Linux users
than Vista beta testers and yet most companies don't offer much for
Linux drivers, so why would you expect Vista to be any different. When
Dell starts selling computers with Vista installed, that's one thing,
but until then I do believe it's unreasonable to blame Dell for not
supporting a beta OS.

On a side note, unless you're a programmer who will be writing software
for Vista or an admin who will eventually migrate and have to manage
many machines with the new OS, there's very little reason to be using
Vista right now.


I think not: Vista was to be introduced in mid 2006; vendors should have
drivers available - at least to Microsoft.

Q

"Quaoar" wrote in message
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Nicholas Andrade wrote:
It's truely amazing how many people actually expect companies like Dell
& IBM to support beta versions of Vista. I'm beginning to think that
the claim that Google calling all their products "beta" when they're
borderline production quality has watered down term may actually be
true. From a programmer's perspective, the changes between XP in Vista
internally are definitely not trivial. There are far more Linux users
than Vista beta testers and yet most companies don't offer much for
Linux drivers, so why would you expect Vista to be any different. When
Dell starts selling computers with Vista installed, that's one thing,
but until then I do believe it's unreasonable to blame Dell for not
supporting a beta OS.

On a side note, unless you're a programmer who will be writing software
for Vista or an admin who will eventually migrate and have to manage
many machines with the new OS, there's very little reason to be using
Vista right now.


I think not: Vista was to be introduced in mid 2006; vendors should have
drivers available - at least to Microsoft.

Q

Yeah, right. Try Mid-2007.

Oh, wait. With the original promised features? Mid-2015