Nah. I won't bore you with more of my anti-Vista ranting.
Suffice it to say, that if you read news/blogs of any sort, you've seen that there's really starting to be a mounting backlash towards Vista. More and more people are announcing that they're not impressed with it, and there's more and more talk of downgrading back to Vista. And not just geeks and IT folks either. But non-geeks as well.
Okay, one small-ish, but valid, rant:
Strangely enough though, I just can't seem to leave it alone. The other day I applied Vista SP1 - hoping that it would somehow let me use my network attached scanner. No love. (Honestly Vista/MS, the earth is no longer flat. There are thousands of all-in-one printers out there that are 'network' attached instead of bound to a USB cable somewhere. Yet there's no friggin support for these scanners in Vista???)
But enough of that.
How about an interesting insight instead?
I've been reading Mário Romano's blog for a while now. It's a great mix of stuff that I frequently find worthwhile to read. (Most blogs I subscribe to I just glance over.) He had a very interesting post recently. So, even when you don't hate Vista, there's really not all that much to love.
Complain to your device makers, not Microsoft.
Posted by: Nicholas | October 12, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Nicholas,
Re-read the post instead of whipping out the knee-jerk reaction of "Vista problems are really hardware vendor problems not MS problems".
First of all: my scanner issue has nothing to do with the drivers (as far as I can tell). It has everything to do with an OS that simply won't let me add a scanner unless it's plugged in via a USB cable. And if this was some high-end, extravagent scanner - then fine, I guess that would make sense. But visit any office supply store, all of the 'all in one' printers now include scanners. And they're increasingly coming as network-attached devices instead of USB-attached-and-shared devices.
That, and blaming hardware vendors for Vista's poor start only goes so far. MS drug their feet so long getting the damn thing to a point where they could ship it (by removing 95% of the stuff that they promised would be in it), then rammed it through the final beta cycles so quickly that hardware vendors really didn't have a chance to make and test solid drivers.
That, and you can bet I've already given HP an ear-ful ;)
Posted by: Michael K. Campbell | October 13, 2007 at 01:08 AM