{"id":551846,"date":"2007-03-24T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551846-microsoft-vista-not-for-notebooks.html"},"modified":"2007-03-24T00:04:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T00:04:44","slug":"microsoft-vista-not-for-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551846-microsoft-vista-not-for-notebooks.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Microsoft Vista not for notebooks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

"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.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally, 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’.<\/font><\/p>\n

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. <\/font><\/p>\n

"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."<\/font><\/p>\n

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Microsoft Vista operating system seems to be causing technical issues when running on notebooks, prompting Pretoria-based notebook and accessories retailer, The Notebook Company, to advise its users to use Windows XP instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}