‘Microsoft Vista not for notebooks’
According to Christopher Riley, CEO of The Notebook Company, one of the big issues is that there are a lot of drivers that are not available, particularly on machines that are not specified to be Vista compatible.
"Finding the drivers is a problem," he said. "So far, at least three Acer notebooks which we have sold do not work because the drivers we downloaded just don’t work.”
“Additionally, to download the driver installation and the additional software installation package for one of the Acer notebooks was a 600Mb file. 3G drivers have only recently become available for download and there is no support from Pastel – the accounting software vendors – for Vista. Numerous times, when installing the Mcafee software anti-virus solution we had serious problems – the machine would restart and go into a ‘loop’.
Norton anti-virus software is also causing problems with Vista. In general there are also – from our experiences -hitches regarding 3rd party software. Vista is just not stable on notebooks.
"I think, right now, users using notebooks should stick to XP until the first service pack for Vista is released – that is what we are currently recommending."
Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, recently commented in iWeek that the Vista operating system had been incredibly well received. "People who sell PCs have seen a very nice lift in their sales," he said.
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