It does not really GIVE you a chance to 'give Vista a chance' to say: 'ok, I can do it; I can suffer a bit and get use to the "Microsoft" user interface way.' Then wham, another enlightenment! You cannot! It is still a piece of cr@P!
I thought, cool, the network discover and network sharing options are very user friendly. Checked. Plug in a HP LaserJet printer, Vista automatically discovers it and installs the proper driver. Checked. Sharing printer and the default "public" folder are a snap. Checked. Installing wirless HP printer. Takes a bit of time (maybe because of the wireless bandwidth, no problem). Checked. Start up the built-in webcam. Poof.... No device detected. Gone! The webcam driver has driven away. Gone, gone..... Same problem as when I was in Boston. Out of the blue, the webcam does not work anymore. A reload will fix this. But this will be the 3rd reload! That is, if I decide to do it! So, you have a $2,200 machine with all the bells and whistles but a crappy operating system making it worst than a Pentium 3 with Windows 98!
Also, I cannot run dos-based programs natively in full screen. You need to either run it in dosbox or use VPC 2007 (Microsoft's virtualization software - free download). I installed both mentioned programs; my dos program works until it attempts to read a drive; that's when it cannot handle the virtualization. You would think the Microsoft VPC would be much better. Wrong! I load in Windows 98 in a virtual machine mode; start the dos program; it hangs! Cannot even run! How bad is that! On top of that, the PVC has not much instruction that really helps.
Last ditch effort. I am going to follow the PVC project director's blog and rip out the PVC 2004, extract the DOS component and load it to PVC 2007. Go figure; that's tomorrow's job.
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