re: XP Refugees: Read This Basic Advice
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:46 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(462 messages posted)
Dan, for heaven's sake, you sound like a Microsoft hatchetman...
Has it occurred to you how pathetically easy it would have been for Microsoft to
program the installation routine to tell us all these things automatically? As Step
1 in the installation routine, before a single file has been transferred? If Belarc
can analyse a system, why can't MS?
"You are attempting to instal Windows 7 to a system which has less than 1GB of RAM.
Windows 7 has also detected that, under your previous operating system, you were
running software which may be incompatible. Be aware that if you re-instal this
software, it is unlikely to run correctly due to the following known issues... "
etc, etc.
You will realise, of course, that even if you had reformatted your disc prior to
installation, this information would STILL be available.
What you are doing, in your post, is what sociologists call "blaming the victim".
You know, when there's a plane crash, it's the dead pilot who gets the blame.
That fact that all these people are installing the system, and then finding that
it doesn't run properly, is not a reflection on them... it's an indictment of Microsoft's
incompetence. The majority of the problems they are complaining of would have already
been discovered by MS engineers as part of the development process. So why didn't
MS incorporate that wisdom into the installation routine?
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