Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims

thefickler writes "Dissatisfaction with Windows Vista seems to be swelling, with the Dutch Consumers' Union (Consumentenbond) asking Microsoft to supply unhappy Vista users with a free copy of Windows XP. Not surprisingly, Microsoft refused. This prompted Consumentenbond to advise consumers to ask for XP, rather than Vista, when buying a new computer."

Yeah!

[eddy]

Boycott Microsoft for... er... Microsoft. That'll show them!

Re:Yeah!

[Anonymous Coward]

...gets to keep it's market share relatively even while also having it's older OS

...gets to keep it is market share relatively even while also having it is older OS.

There, fixed that for you.

Windows 2000 is the WORLDS MOST SECURE OS...

[JackMeyhoff]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q276304/ [microsoft.com]

Vista is teh noob killer

[j-stroy]

A new Toshiba A200 laptop a friend bought came with Vista. The excessive amount of system alerts which pop-up confused the hell out of him, leading him to click on the adware / spyware browser pop-up ads which also looked like systems alerts, so he installed 5 competing blackmailing "buy me now or you computer is toast" apps for his "protection". These stalled his machine FLAT.

He was ready to axemurder his new computer, and still is cheesed about his first big computer purchase leaving him with such a bad after taste. Luckily I could somewhat untangle the extensive damage.. although we almost did a full wipe and restore, but decided to save that for when we put XP onto it instead (provided we drivers are available!!)

That was before he started asking "what is all this crap on the desktop" re: the widgets, etc. I can't imagine anyone as a beginner getting through the installs, setups, intertangled "welcome" dialog boxes and learning curve without being fully baffled and damaging their system to boot. Obviously Vista is designed to sell more hardware, since noobs can brick their O/S so easily, they will just toss the whole computer as a PoS. Expect vendors to step up as Vista based returns increase!

Oh yeah, this doesn't even mention the amount of buy me and trialware and "marketplace" shortcuts on the desktop.. I'd LOL but I'm gagging.

Microsoft Vista: teh noobs kill YOU!

Re:It depends upon the system.

[JasonTik]

So wait... Vista is just a really buggy linux clone? I should have known Microsoft could even manage to screw up linux!

Re:It depends upon the system.

[drseuk]

Not quite. When 6.10 came out, all the geeks thought it was terrible and wanted to use 6.06 instead, because chances are they were already using it. The people that didn't care about computers loved 6.10, because they were coming from 5.10. Now people are coming from 6.10, which is decent, and even the average consumer doesn't like 7.04, not just the geeks.

Hmm!

Re:Vista is part of the failure model...

[dricci]

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:It depends upon the system.

[The One and Only]

Speak for yourself! For us Mac users, everything since System 6.0.8 has been slow, buggy, and bloated!

Re:They aren't kidding

[G-Licious!]

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