Comments on: A Wild Eyed Salivating Rat? “Windows 7 Unleashed” Book Review

By: Jhon

Jhon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:05:46 +0000

I work in IT (a large national medical laboratory). With a few exceptions, Vista is resoundly disliked. It’s given us nothing but problems whenever it was deployed. I’m telling you, it’s the new “ME”. We’ve been testing with Win7 RC and it’s worlds better.

Trust me EVERYONE, Geogray in particular, that you haven’t found any issues with Vista probably speaks of your narrow range of use. At the enterprise level — and even mid-sized enviornments, Vista is in fact a “steaming pile of poo”.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:36:35 +0000

I bought a Toshiba laptop in October ’07 that had Vista. It’s still my main computer, and I’ve had no problems with Vista. Many people that have complained to me about Vista on their computers just didn’t have enough RAM. It won’t run well on 512 Meg or even 1 Gig. My laptop came with 2 Gig and I upgraded it to 4 right away.

I recently installed Windows 7 on an old Dell laptop that I had collecting dust, and gave it to my daughter to try. She seems to like it. I’ll probably put Windows 7 on my wife’s MSI wind and see if it works good on the netbook.

This was a good review of the “Unleashed” book, I’ll look for it soon.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:44:09 +0000

I have Vista on two computers…what is the problem with it?

By: brady

brady — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:57:56 +0000

Nice title. I was expecting a review of an O’reilly book with an actually wild eyed salivating rat on the cover. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed.

By: geogray

geogray — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:37:14 +0000

Oh good grief. The only problem with Vista that cause my blood pressure to go up, was all of the freaking press whining about some old piece of hardware or software that had problems with the OS. So that twenty year old serial printer didn’t work, big deal. Vista just was not the steaming pile of poo you all said it was. Sigh.