So I believe Vista is officially available to business now? Or at least it’s very close? Well, I got a new laptop at work that is marked with one of those pimpy “Vista Qualified” stickers so I decided to download a copy from my company’s MSDN subscription to try it out. I am posting this from XP… On that laptop… Let me tell you why:<br/><br/>1) There is no driver support at all! I really mean this; there is 0. My graphics card (an Nvidia) showed up as having 32mb of RAM when in fact it has 512mb, dual monitor support was absolutely atrocious, and when docked I could not use USB peripherals from my docking station or the headphone jack coming from it. I tried for a day to run just a laptop with no monitors or peripherals, but that didn’t work out. I actually found the graphics drivers for Vista RC1, ran the installer and it says to me “Setup cannot continue because you’re not running Windows.” BAHAHAHA!<br/><br/>2) Even Microsoft doesn’t support it! They have a nifty download tool that you must use with their MSDN site, but it isn’t supported in Vista! You have to use it, they make it, it doesn’t work!<br/><br/>Looks like I’ll be pulling the same thing I did when XP came out; installing one year before the next version is released :tongue:
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