Microsoft Windows Vista

Posted last year, at the end of March by Dave.
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Once again I have heard of someone who got one of the free copys of Windows Vista and has had problems. Earlier Cormac Moylan posted Show Time Microsoft Vista Installation is on the Clock on his blog, Cormac Moylan. He was installing his free copy of Vista from Microsoft Ireland.

Straight away he ran into problems……

21.30 - Popped DVD into drive while XP is booted up just to take a look at the Promo Screens.
21.32 - After waiting for the autorun file to kick in I open up My Computer to automatically launch the relative .exe
21.33 - System Crashes - I reboot the PC

This has to be a world record for Microsoft, 3 minutes to crash a system during an install. Cormac was smarter then me, he gave up after 15 minutes and said fuck that. Me, I left it running over night, when I was going to bed it was just under 5 hours installing. Then in the morning I woke up and had to sit through another couple of hours applying settings.

So far alot of Windows Vista bugs have been found by people all over the world. Even before it was released there was bugs found by the worlds press, take a look at this for instance ….

That clip was published on YouTube back in July 2006. You would have to admit that Microsoft are really having an hard time with Vista, even when they give it away people do not want to install it.


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Niall IRELAND

Comment on March 26th, 2007 .

Even Windows 98SE could be made crash within a few mins of boot off the CD, try having a few ISA cards (remember those) installed.

Can’t add much more than that since I’ve so far managed to avoid Vista :)

Dave IRELAND

Comment on March 26th, 2007 .

Niall, 98 was a train wreck as well! :D

Im running Vista on my laptop and it cant even uncompress folders! I has the bloody thing on its knees! I would wait another 18 months before even looking at installing Vista on another machine myself. At least until the service packs come out.

Cormac Moylan UNITED KINGDOM

Comment on March 27th, 2007 .

Ah Vista, what a pipe dream. I knew that I would encounter some problems as my PC isn’t the quickest (it’s going on 3 years old if not more) but it still passed the Vista requirements. I received a big green tick mark to let me know my PC was Vista capable and it falls on its knees without even loading up a thing!

Ridicuolous.

Dave IRELAND

Comment on March 27th, 2007 .

My laptop is 18 months old and it failed on the software tests. But when I got it finally loaded, it failed alot of the hardware tests. I cant run the Aero Desktop which is what I wanted!

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