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| Thread ID: 76914 | 2007-02-20 09:30:00 | Vista: Isn't it Ridiculous! | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 526223 | 2007-02-20 09:30:00 | I find myself incredulous with disbelief! I've just bought a Microsoft optical notebook mouse and I cant get it to work under Vista even with some beta drivers from Microsoft! Vista can detect that there is new hardware but that's it! Vista is quite good in some ways but at the end of the day it really doesn't do (at this point) anything better than XP can and in fact I really believe that XP does alot of the core stuff better. And when even M/Soft products cant work what's it all coming too! Mind you I cant get it to recognize 3 out of 4 of my USB drives either (A-Data & Sony types) either! |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 526224 | 2007-02-20 09:58:00 | Worth keeping at near the top of the page to illustrate a point or two. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 526225 | 2007-02-20 10:09:00 | let me see (scratches head) oh yea I think this was gripe was brought up about xp when it was released to. Im no microsoft fan but please is it really their fault, soon we'll refer to device drivers built into an OS as BLOATWARE because of the expected inclusion by the end users of device drivers for every conceivable peice of hard ware. :2cents: :2cents: |
beama (111) | ||
| 526226 | 2007-02-20 10:57:00 | No, to a certain extent it's not. However, as I understand it, MS has not been entirely forthcoming with help for drivers in general in the form of access to APIs, though you would expect MS to have their won products supported would you not. That's assuming it's a driver issue and not something within Vista. Besides that, on a purely practical level, you'd be best to hold off for a while, as the sensible people did with XP. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 526227 | 2007-02-20 11:02:00 | Free Vista drivers: www.radarsync.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 526228 | 2007-02-20 13:11:00 | It was supposed to be a major selling point, the thousands of newer drivers in Vista.. but its a joke! Seriously, I wonder if Linux comes with better support at times. I know it does for a fact on my machine, picks up _everything_ out of the box, no messing around with additional drivers at all! Im not saying this to push linux into your PC, but rather to illustrate the point that if a bunch of people who work on an OS in their spare time can do it, why cant a multi-national billion dollar company get it right? :P CAli, any chance we can get some more specifics on the hardware? Just out of curiousity :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 526229 | 2007-02-21 09:01:00 | Beama you knob - you're plainly missing the point! It's their O/S so at the very least you'd expect their hardware drivers to work on it! And Chilling is right - the supposed massive driver support range is a major selling point for Microsoft. (: |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 526230 | 2007-02-21 09:04:00 | It's their O/S so at the very least you'd expect their hardware drivers to work on it! I wonder if it works on linux? :rolleyes: Just out of curiosity..:) |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 526231 | 2007-02-21 09:04:00 | Sure Chill Microsoft Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 A-Data PD9 USB Drive (2) Sony Micro Vault 128MB USB drive The only USB drive I could get to work on Vista was a Transcend Jetflash one so out of the 4 USB drives I own you can just guess which one I lost recently! My laptop is a core 2 duo runnning Vista Home Basic |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 526232 | 2007-02-21 12:11:00 | And do not install SP2 for XP. This being said sometime back. Remember? Usual sort of FUD factor creeps in here. If you have the hardware it came with drivers for whatever O/S you had at the time I would think. Then you go buy a 60 Gig hard drive to put in a old motherboard running Win98. Then you think, "Gee I have to flash the BIOS so the BIOS will even notice I have a 60 Gig hard drive." So if you are sucessful in doing the BIOS flash then you notice that the O/S will not support partitions over 32 megabytes and etc. It goes on and on. And did Chemical Ali plug in all hardware and use the Vista Advisor before using Vista? The M/S Joystick I once had plugged into a sound card interface. Gave it away to a mate and bought a logitech force feedback. Unfortunately this one is not recognised by Commander Keen and etc. If I was really KEEN (Sic) on this game I guess I would have a go at Trademe and get a bid out for a leftover 486 with 2 mbytes RAM and a 10 megabyte hard drive. Possibly going at 2 for $5.00 I have two Mustek scanners with no XP drivers so bought a Canon Scanner. Gave that one away as I have a 8 megapixel camera. Works as scanner too. Oh. I don't use Microsoft drivers for anything. There again I don't have any Microsoft hardware. |
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