Windows Vista is everyone's favorite tech punching bag, and not without reason. But the reviled operating system has some amazing potential and with some tweaks and a few utilities, you can do what Redmond didn't: make Vista great.
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Member since:2005-08-18
Good thing there's no usenet support for FOSS software...
What color is the sky in your world? Good luck getting support from any of the numerous hardware manufacturers when your shiny new equipment does not work or there's a bug in their driver (3rd party drivers are always of the "highest" quality in Windows, arent they). You'll be lucky if they even have a support forum or an updated driver.
I"m not saying FOSS is any better (or worse) but saying Windows is fully vendor supported is, quite frankly, bull.
Member since:2005-10-10
Creative screw all users!
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soun...
You mean like this 
Member since:2007-04-29
same as you, blue. i never had any trouble getting support for windows problems (ok, i run osx and haven't run windows for a few years).
please note i said windows support, and nothing more than that. i never said all companies have high quality support or drivers. but the 3rd party drivers are a lot better than the foss drivers (i'm still waiting for working 3d video card drivers for my hardware).
but could you please point out a hardware manufacturer who does not support windows? really, humor me. intel? amd? nvidia? hp? iiyama? apc? even apple supports windows. maybe you should ask theo de raadt about how much companies support foss.
it's really sad people are not capable of realizing 90+% of the people run windows in this world. it's not the way i want it either, but at least i understand it.
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2007-04-29
your isp helpdesk for internet trouble, most likely they support osx/windows but not your linux distro.
and for the dutch microsoft support : http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support?LN=nl
there is a hotline you could call, there is usenet support and some other stuff.
feel free to say windows is crap, their helpdesk sucks or people have trouble pinpointing the nature of their problems. but windows is fully supported by all hardware manufacturers. with nearly all products you have phone support. you are just not part of the target audience.