i cant even run windows messenger, catch up everyone for f**k sake!!
2007-02-12 08:46:30 · 5 answers · asked by rob t 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
MS should have made their new OS compatible with everyone else not the other way around. Vista doesn't even work with other MS operating systems. What were they thinking when they released this?
I have Vista myself so I can understand your frustration.
One solution for you is to go to microsoft.com. They have some new updates for Vista. I am not sure if any of the updates will fix your problem but check it out. I haven't been there to download anything yet but I am headed that way after I leave this site.
2007-02-12 08:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by knt1229 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vista has been in the making for 5 years but 5 years ago the hardware that is available today was not available so these drivers are more recent.
Vista was not finalised till much more recently so hardware/software manufacturers were not able to develop for a finished version till they actually knew what they needed to make things compatible for.
If companies spent the five years developinf the drivers they would have had to keep changing them as vista changed during development which would have been counter productive.
Anyway when XP came out there was probems too with things not working, a lot of old dos apps work fine in windows versions prior to XP but don't work well with XP. These problems are not unique to vista and they should be slved in time.
2007-02-12 21:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, it is based off Windows 2003 and basically has a remade code base from that of XP. Some things will work with it, some won't and that's life with a new OS. Vienna (next version after Vista) is going to be a complete remake of Windows, dumping backwards compatibility completely, or so says Microsoft.
2007-02-12 16:53:37 · answer #3 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmm - because it's a microsoft product and they don't give a toss about their end consumer?
Do yourself a favour - buy a computer with an operating system actually designed to run on the hardware it comes with - like ehhhh - oh yeah - a Mac.
2007-02-12 16:54:07 · answer #4 · answered by circusmort 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Micro$oft's new way to thwart piracy is to make something so worthless that it isn't popular enough to be pirated.
2007-02-12 16:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋