Vista upgrade problems
Ii may be beating a dead horse but here is some more evidence that home PC users are likely to be better off if they postpone switching to Vista until they buy a new system with Vista pre-installed. And even then, there may be problems with peripherals and older software. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes about the upgrade problems he’s seen:
I’m in a position where I get a lot of feedback (through channels such as my blog, here at ZDNet and over on CNET) from users of all technical levels, from very basic to power users, and what I’m seeing is a lot of unhappy people.
He notes two categories of unhappy users:
The first group of unhappy Vista users seem to be those who have bought a new PC but who are trying to get all their old hardware and software to work on it. The core PC system runs fine with Vista (as would be expected) but things change when legacy hardware and software is installed.
The second are the users who upgraded their existing hardware to Vista from a previous version of Windows. This seems to be a much smaller group of people (as a rough rule of thumb, those who buy new PCs seem to outnumber those upgrading an existing system about 10 to 1) but they’re experiencing more serious problems, ranging from not being able to use certain legacy hardware or software to complete system meltdown.
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