re: XP Refugees: Read This Basic Advice
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:58 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(8786 messages posted)
I would say someone who installs without checking to make sure the system can run
an OS correctly is not a victim, more like they dove into the deep end of the pool
without knowing how to swim. You still help them out but it is their own fault for
not making sure what they are getting into.
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:46 am, Alan Masterman wrote:
>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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