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I understand your frustration, but the reason I enjoyed your blog so much was because you always kept a professional tone. I don't like finishing an article and having to ask myself, 'Was this written by a disgruntled teenager?'

Just my two cents...

The real comedy comes in with the Vibrant ads for Acer. This must be the first time I find them less annoying :]

For a more serious comment: Michael is right.

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I would have to agree with Michael on this one.

Maybe you should do something constructive about this. Flick them an email, or give them a ring. Record what happens too. It will certainly give your case more weight. =)

Hm... I seem to recall that Microsoft picked Acer Ferraris as Vista review machines sent to bloggers last year :-)

I must have missed something there, what was your problem with IE7?

I agree with you Robert, why the hell people always blame the operating system. As the saying goes "A bad tradesman always blames his tools !"

You have a small typo: "nobody would by one of your machine". I think you wanted to say "buy".

Sorry Rob, I disagree. Disappointing doesn't necessarily mean bad. Vista really is disappointing compared to what it could have and should have been if Microsoft had bother to include all the features it promised.

What we were left with is a warmed up, incompatible and slightly better looking version of XP.

We've extensively tested Vista in the Office (since some of the early unofficial Alphas) and all agree that its a bit of a stinker and have decided to wait for the first service pack before upgrading. It makes our powerful machines less powerful, makes them run hot and thus makes the fans increase to about 120db. A lot of software does not run and even if it does, it tends to run considerably slower, and many drivers are incompatible.

Its such a shame really as Vista could have been something truly great. Lets hope Vienna/Seven is a better upgrade.

Soooo... Let me get this right: Acer, a pc-maker, is blaming a software-maker for not contributing to soaring sales for the pc-maker? That's just stupid.

And by the way, if you have to go chinese, go for Lenovo. Acer just suck.

A CEO take responsibility for his companies product? Shutter the thought. It's always someone elses fault.

Chip, thanks for catching that. Corrected.

Mitchell, I posted a link to my IE7 problems in that "Your Mileage May Vary" post. IE7 (presumably because of Flash) accounts for the vast majority of my 400-some-odd application crashes. Upgrading to the new Flash hasn't helped so far.

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Ironically, my Acer laptop runs snappier with Vista than with XP, I had less drivers to manually install in Vista, too. I would never go back to XP on laptop.

the funny thing about the whole "acer says" story is, that mr. lanci keeps telling this bs everyone over and over again. i did a story on our site like a month or two ago, he just was talking to some other newspaper or website and said exactly the same stuff. just now, that dpa, afp, ap, reuters, whoever jumped on it it's being hyped as hell. a month ago noone really cared. just my 0,02€.

Why should a new Windows release boost PC-sales?  All I want is a lean, mean, light-weight operating system where resources are used at their fullest potential.  Not buying a new desktop machine every three years.  

Wow, degenerated into trolling companies here? RSS Unsubscribed.

Unprofessional.

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Hmmm... I've said far worse things before... what was it I said that set you too off?

Wes, can you please elaborate on your comment? I didn't quite understand what you were saying.

I've been using Vista now since February, and I have to agree with Acer. Vista is prettier, yes, but doesn't provide any other compelling reason to upgrade. As an end user, I haven't found anything in Vista that I couldn't do in XP (although XP needs a few downloads to get instant search, Defender and Media Player 11). After 5-6 years of waiting, one would really have expected so much more innovation. For business, Vista's new network stack is buggy and unreliable, and the same goes for the search indexer, which is very unreliable especially when indexing e-mails and contacts from Outlook, and makes me wish I had never installed it in our small business at all.

Buggy Network Stack?!? Not hardly ... unless you have a bad driver... I have yet to any difficulty connecting Vista to anything; Wired, Wireless, Domain, Workgroup, Printer, Projector, Telco, etc. Unless there is a problem with a manufacturer that is drigging their feet getting their drivers (act) together.

Let's try and keep track of one simple fact. MS didn't cobble this thing together in a weekend and then foist it on the public ... It has been in development (and the public eye) for over 5 YEARS!! So...  If you're a computer hardware manufacturer, and your bread & butter market is in making hardware for Windows based machines, then you should have been paying attention to what was happening in the industry and reacted accordingly. Period! Complaining at MS because your Widget don't run on Vista makes about about as much sense as complaining that you're brand new ISA cards aren't selling very well.

Vista's main objective was to be more secure, and it is. Sure it cleaved off the ability to get sloppy code to run, but why is that bad?!? MS has been begging developers not to use undocumented APIs for years. Did they listen? No. Are they gona stop now? If they want their software to sell...You betcha.

   Frankly I'm tired of tearing out my hair trying to figure out what (they we're smoking) is going on with some poorly written flakey application that some id10t sales drone foisted on a client for a vertical market because it "was the only thing available". MS is finally forcing companies to cleanup their act, do a little error checking for crying out loud, and put together code that actually does run well ... and I'm all for it.

As far as Acer goes, hay if the shoe fits... Enough with the Politically Correctly (turn in to mush) owie crap, grow a hide, stiffen that upper lip, stand up like a man, and build something that doesn't suck when it running the OS that's about to dominate the market. Christ if 5 years isn't enough of a warrning ... then maybe they should get out of the PC market and start making something that isn't quite so "edgy" ... like those plastic flamingo lawn decorations.

I bought my new ACER specialy for vista!

This computer is better than most of dell's crap!

Amd 1.60Ghz 64x2_1Gb ram_120Gb HD_256Mb GPU_Wide screen 16" 1280/800_Dual layer DVD Burner_Vista Home Premium_and best of all, NOTHING DELL~or~CRAPPLE related!