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MrMellie 
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 Posted: 05 February 2007 at 6:40pm |
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.However for a development and working platform this sucked. You can't find anything and everything works slower because it has smooth animation to it all. |
The first thing I did when I installed XP was turn off all the animations and visual effects.  When I buy more powerful hardware, it's to run things faster, not to cope with "pretty" things designers *think* we want.
I'll be joining you in avoiding Vista boRg!
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Posted: 05 February 2007 at 6:52pm |
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I gave Vista a go at the weekend as Microsoft have sent me the Business Edition and I've got to say I hated it.
It looks great for the home user, better looking, more emphasis on media, and simpler to use with all the advanced features well and truly hidden away.
However for a development and working platform this sucked. You can't find anything and everything works slower because it has smooth animation to it all.
The other problem I found is that on the machine I used for testing all the hardware was recognised and worked with Vista except the keyboard, and guess who makes the keyboard? Microsoft!! who are not going to make any Vista compatible drivers for it.
I have found this every time MS have released a new operating system I have to scrap any Microsoft hardware to the bin as they seem to be the only company that don't make new drivers available for their own new OS.
I for one will be avoiding Vista for as long as I possibly can.
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I admit that in the beginning it takes a little getting used to. I am not using Vista for several month and grew accustom to it. I truly think it is superior to XP depending on your configuration. I am not doing much development on it but for .net stuff, IIS7 is just the bomb. So much easier to configure. So I guess, if you want to stick with what you know, either enable classic menus (you can do that and your vista looks almost like xp) or stick with XP which is a good OS, everyone (including you I think :) ) hated in the beginning.
As far as HW goes, you are right. MS is very bad in driver support. I have a MS Ergonomical blah blah 4000 or something. It did get upgraded drivers and for my Mouse (explorer) i do not really care as long as the back button works.
I would not buy another MS hardware anyway for myself for reasons like that and that 3rd parties provide much better HW now I think.
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Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:25pm |
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If anyone can find drivers for the Microsoft Office Keyboard RT9450 I will think about upgrading till then I can't live without this keyboard.
I've not yet found a keyboard anywhere near this one to replace it with, it has cut, copy, and paste keys as well as a big scroll button which stops all that repetitive strain injury when scrolling through code all day.
As a developer and suffering repetitive strain from scrolling I can't live without this keyboard I even have a stack of them in an office cupboard from eBay since MS stopped making it so I can replace my keyboard every time the old one wears out.
Microsoft have released new Intelli Pro divers but they missed this keyboard out in them, which means I'm stuck with XP till either MS come out with a driver, I find a work around, or I finally find a keyboard which compares to this one (trust me I have been looking for years for a replacement and tried many along the way).
Edited by -boRg- - 05 February 2007 at 7:27pm
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Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:32pm |
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Did you try to just use the XP driver off the CD? That might work as it does for my scanner.
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Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:44pm |
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I spent 2 hours searching the Internet, even trying to hack the XP driver to force it to install on Vista but with no luck.
Seems like lots of people have the same issue with this keyboard and no-one has found a solution to it.
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Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:57pm |
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Hmmm, I bought 2 new laptops at the weekend, one for me and one for the wife, and none had the specs I needed without Vista being on them (I believe MS are in cahoots with the IRS as my tax return was delayed until after Vista came out).
So far, I've used the VRS a whole once. It managed my English accent better than IBM Via Voice ever did and it spells better than me but I am not convinced that it is quicker than typing and I got fed up of trying to make it type "forum", it wanted to take me back to the default.asp instead.
Other than that, I haven't had any problems with Vista but my I had to double the RAM on the wife's computer to get it to run forwards. Chess Titans is going to prevent me completing my contracts on time I think.
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Posted: 08 February 2007 at 8:34am |
-boRg- wrote:
The other problem I found is that on the machine I used for testing all the hardware was recognised and worked with Vista except the keyboard, and guess who makes the keyboard? Microsoft!! who are not going to make any Vista compatible drivers for it.
I have found this every time MS have released a new operating system I have to scrap any Microsoft hardware to the bin as they seem to be the only company that don't make new drivers available for their own new OS.
I for one will be avoiding Vista for as long as I possibly can.
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well thats why i always buy standard PS2 keyboards.. they are compatible even with a dumb rock.. plug them in any os and guaranteed to work..Genius the the brand feels right to me in the given price vs package.
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Posted: 08 February 2007 at 8:41am |
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2 years from now..i can see speech recognition as a fav exploit just like RPC and IE was for XP
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