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Blacklight · 01-07-08, 12:14 PM

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I worked as a department manager at Staples when Vista came out. We had this HUGE promotion with banners, posters. Each of us was trained and schooled in how to sell Windows Vista (and there was even a quiz at the end). Microsoft even sent some of "their guys" out to the stores to demo it for the flood of customers that were expected to be purchasing it on the day of release. We had literally hundreds of boxes stacked and ready for the sale with Mr. Micro$oft guy there with his demo computer all ready to go. It was pretty much a huge Micro$oft sponsored release party that pretty much rivaled a movie release.

Well.. that day came.... and as I had rightly predicted... no one came in to buy it. I think we may have sold 4 copies that day. Not only that, but we discovered that there were major driver and hardware incompattabilities between Vista and about 90% of the new laptops that we put out with Vista pre-installed. A couple of the HP laptops (Which are among the most solid and relable laptops we sold) wouldn't even boot right out of the box and it wasn't due to hardware. It was Vista not being compatable with the laptop's hardware.

We had problems with Vista and pretty much every laptop that we put out on display regardless of brand. All these laptops that had Vista pre-installed on them were coming right out of the box not able to use their DVD writers, or speakers, or would crash when you tried to do pretty much anything. It wasn't that the drives or speakers or whatever were broken... it was the fact that Vista didn't have the proper drivers to work the damn things !!! Then, eventually, the people who had been suckered into buying Vista were coming back complaining that half the hardware on their computers weren't working anymore. I installed Vista on several computers for customers and it made several of their systems go belly up even after I had checked, and double checked the computer's compatability (We actually have a program provided by Micro$oft that we use that checks all devices, drivers, and software and will tell you what in the system is compattable with Vista and what isn't.... this program was a box of all out LIES !!!)

Anyway... the Vista launch was a complete financial disaster.

Vista just INSN'T worth the upgrade at all. I foresee us looking back at Vista in the future like we look back at Windows ME now.

01-07-08, 12:14 PM	#11
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	:rotfl: I worked as a department manager at Staples when Vista came out. We had this HUGE promotion with banners, posters. Each of us was trained and schooled in how to sell Windows Vista (and there was even a quiz at the end). Microsoft even sent some of "their guys" out to the stores to demo it for the flood of customers that were expected to be purchasing it on the day of release. We had literally hundreds of boxes stacked and ready for the sale with Mr. Micro$oft guy there with his demo computer all ready to go. It was pretty much a huge Micro$oft sponsored release party that pretty much rivaled a movie release. Well.. that day came.... and as I had rightly predicted... no one came in to buy it. I think we may have sold 4 copies that day. Not only that, but we discovered that there were major driver and hardware incompattabilities between Vista and about 90% of the new laptops that we put out with Vista pre-installed. A couple of the HP laptops (Which are among the most solid and relable laptops we sold) wouldn't even boot right out of the box and it wasn't due to hardware. It was Vista not being compatable with the laptop's hardware. We had problems with Vista and pretty much every laptop that we put out on display regardless of brand. All these laptops that had Vista pre-installed on them were coming right out of the box not able to use their DVD writers, or speakers, or would crash when you tried to do pretty much anything. It wasn't that the drives or speakers or whatever were broken... it was the fact that Vista didn't have the proper drivers to work the damn things !!! Then, eventually, the people who had been suckered into buying Vista were coming back complaining that half the hardware on their computers weren't working anymore. I installed Vista on several computers for customers and it made several of their systems go belly up even after I had checked, and double checked the computer's compatability (We actually have a program provided by Micro$oft that we use that checks all devices, drivers, and software and will tell you what in the system is compattable with Vista and what isn't.... this program was a box of all out LIES !!!) Anyway... the Vista launch was a complete financial disaster. Vista just INSN'T worth the upgrade at all. I foresee us looking back at Vista in the future like we look back at Windows ME now. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"