[Virginia Ridgerunner]

My company recently upgraded our XP laptops to Vista laptops. It was a BIG mistake, to say the least. I'm forced to run Vista every day, and it sucks at so many different levels that I don't know where to begin my criticism of this turkey.

Needless to say, our IT manager is on the phone EVERY day to Microsoft trying to find solutions to annoying "issues" that repeatedly pop up and have the potential to cripple our operations if left unchecked.

Microsoft ought to be ashamed of itself for putting such a shoddy OS out on the market and trying to force folks to upgrade to it via their draconian licensing agreements and control of the business software market.

[abb]

Microsoft ought to be ashamed of itself for putting such a shoddy OS out on the market and trying to force folks to upgrade to it via their draconian licensing agreements and control of the business software market.

You would have thought they would have learned after they inflicted Millennium Edition on customers, but I guess not. Whoever put ME out for use should be locked up in the penitentiary.

[an amused spectator]

Needless to say, our IT manager is on the phone EVERY day to Microsoft trying to find solutions to annoying "issues" that repeatedly pop up and have the potential to cripple our operations if left unchecked.

Your IT manager made his own bed. The word in the industry was NADA months before Vista's release.

Wonder if Microsoft sales reps cut him a deal and he fell for the bait? He's rueing the day...