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Vista Report Card

Jul 14, 2007 2:40AM PDT

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And KB article to die laughing for.
Jul 14, 2007 7:13AM PDT
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

It's a patch for the OS but you need to install the OS to install the patch but you can't install the OS because it needs this patch (repeat loop.)

Sorry but for this one Microsoft should issue new DVDs.

Bob
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Or
Jul 15, 2007 8:46AM PDT

if while doing a little research before doing your upgrade you might have discovered that you had to remove 2GB, then install, download thhe patch, then the update. Agreed that Microsoft dropped the ball but doing a little homework would avoid the looping. Thanks

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Those were the days my friend.
Jul 15, 2007 9:51AM PDT

The days when we expected owners to rip open the box, flick switches, move jumpers, swap cards, solder cables and more.

Move forward to today. Asking everyone to pop open their machine to install this latest and greatest OS shows that Microsoft is still in the stone age.

Look at that other company where they say "it just works." Microsoft has other situations like this such as installing XP on SATA drives. This is an advanced OS?

I'm not here to defend MS, I don't want have to jump through all these hoops.

Bob

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Agreed
Jul 15, 2007 4:02PM PDT

It's not just MS either. There was an un-named computer manufacturer who was promoting their system's last fall with the x-press Vista Upgrade. Nothing wrong with that(even though there are still some that haven't received it yet). But at the same time they were selling 4GB ram configurations every chance they had. A lot of people were not aware that all 4GB would not be seen and or utilized. Added to that the only Vista OS available was 32bit, 64bit wasn't an option. I agree with your point but in reality it will never happen. Thanks