Texas senator wants to ban Vista purchases

MikeHunt79 · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:18

Apparently it's too buggy!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/texas_senator_wants_state_gov_ban_on_vista/

bledd · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:19

lol, noobs

mleanz1 · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:20

lol if only more people in the world where like this

paradigm · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:24

mleanz1 said:
lol if only more people in the world where like this

If only more people were as backwards and retarded as Texans? Dear god, the world would cease to exist.

Nothing wrong with Vista, anyone who thinks that there still is obviously hasn't actually used it for years.

bledd · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:25

or has a celeron & 512mb

benjo · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:26

paradigm said:
Nothing wrong with Vista, anyone who thinks that there still is obviously hasn't actually used it for years.

Or hasnt got the computer to run it

Ben M · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:41

paradigm said:
Nothing wrong with Vista, anyone who thinks that there still is obviously hasn't actually used it for years.

This. Goons.

Sankari · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:44

Title should read "US senator wants to ban state's agencies from purchasing Vista (and all Vista-related technologies) unless they get written permission from the budget board".

He's not asking for all Vista purchases to be banned.

knowlesy · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:50

Frapple · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:52

"We have a lot of problems with the Vista program."

lol, not the Vista program!!

"It had a lot of bugs."

had, SP1 fools.

"It takes up a lot of memory."

Yes, it takes up a lot of your 256mb memory.

"It's not compatible with other equipment"

And whose fault is that? Yours for not checking compatibility before purchasing? The manufacturers for not using the 2+ years of development time to create x32 and x64 drivers? (**** you Creative)? No, it's Microsoft, obviously.

"and it's supposed to be an upgrade from the XP program that is being used by state agencies, and it's not."

Yes. Yes it is.

fonzee · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:53

Frapple said:
Yes, it takes up a lot of your 256mb memory.

dude, 256 on vista will drive them to suicide.

hell, it'd drive me to suicide

paradigm · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:55

fonzee said:
dude, 256 on vista will drive them to suicide.

hell, it'd drive me to suicide

That was the point. People using vista on machines with too little RAM.

They then complain that vista is slow.

Noobs.

Burnsy2023 · 9 Apr 2009 at 12:56

In a brief video interview with the Austin American-Stateman, Hinojosa admits he has no personal experience with the operating system but has "read a lot about the problems they have with this particular software."

:mad:

blix · 9 Apr 2009 at 13:00

So what would government agencies gain from upgrading to Vista?

Art · 9 Apr 2009 at 13:00

Burnsy2023 said:
IHinojosa admits he has no personal experience with the operating system but has "read a lot about the problems they have with this particular software."

You sound like you're surprised a politician wants to make a law from an uninformed decision.

NathanE · 9 Apr 2009 at 14:28

He is an idiot and anyone that sides with him is also an idiot.

cje · 9 Apr 2009 at 14:32

I've haven't had a single bsod using vista. (Ok I did when overclocking), but not because vista was buggy. one word: DORK.

mmj_uk · 9 Apr 2009 at 15:26

He's right when he says it's not worth it, government officials won't really need DX10 which in my opinion is Vista's only major selling point over XP.

It makes more sense to stay with a mature XP platform than have the IT departments dealing with newer Vista issues when there's so little gain from using it.

Burnsy2023 · 9 Apr 2009 at 15:39

mmj_uk said:
He's right when he says it's not worth it, government officials won't really need DX10 which in my opinion is Vista's only major selling point over XP.

It makes more sense to stay with a mature XP platform than have the IT departments dealing with newer Vista issues when there's so little gain from using it.

There are many advantages when it's on a Server 2008 domain, such as improved Group Policies, much more configurable options in WDS (where XP is pretty crap) and many other things.

Vista totally changes when put onto a network.

Mattus · 9 Apr 2009 at 15:39

His reasoning may be ignorant but his decision is kinda right. There's no point upgrading slow machines to Vista now when 7 is just around the corner.