May 14, 2008
AC Is The Hip, Mac Guy; I am the PC Dweeb
My experience with Vista® has been pretty good. I bought it preloaded on a new box and have liked it. I have a few old programs that don't run or don't run well on it, but I will pay that price for progress.
It's running on an HP desktop, and HP has a small application that checks in for new drivers and releases and patches. I would complain that it is difficult to decline a new driver -- it will keep asking you to install it everytime it checks for new downloads. This is HP's problem and not Microsoft's.
So I said yes to a video chipset driver even though I did not have the issue it fixed. It downloaded and installed and now the display reverts to 800x640 everytime it hibernates or is restarted. Just a few clicks to restore the old settings, but by then all your windows are resized tiny to fit the VGA screen.
Larry Kudlow says he's buying a Mac. I had thought the Vista problems were overblown, now I am wavering.