Dutch Consumers’ Counsel advises against Vista
October 12, 2007 – 6:51 pmAfter more than 5000 complains of costumers about Vista in a month of time, the Dutch Consumers’ Counsel decided to talk with Microsoft. The goal of the negotiations was to give consumers the possibility to downgrade from Vista to XP if consumers had serious complaints about Vista. However Microsoft denied the request, since (according to Microsoft) the computers have been developed for use with Vista and a downgrade to XP will therefore bring along many other issues with the operating system (…?…). To solve some of the problems Microsoft opened a site where people can resolve many of their problems in three steps (site).
But since Microsoft did not co-operate sufficiently, the Consumers’ Counsel still advises people to ask for XP when buying a new computer and only to buy a computer with Vista installed if you are sure you will not run into trouble or if you know you will be able to handle these. Besides they advised vendors to change the operating system for costumers if they request this.
In a previous press release the Consumers’ Counsel already advised people to think about alternatives like Apple’s Mac OS X or the free Linux Ubuntu….
11 Responses to “Dutch Consumers’ Counsel advises against Vista”
Yeah! I’m proud to be dutch
By Vincent on Oct 13, 2007
me too
By mckooiker on Oct 13, 2007
Great country, wonderful coffee, love the bicycle-friendliness, love that you’re standing up to Bill the Bully.
By Dave on Oct 13, 2007
What about recomending an alternative? How about a free alternative? Ubuntu linix? yeah! Thats the idea!
By Canuckelhead on Oct 13, 2007
“”"… resolve many of their problems in three steps (site).”"”
I don’t speak dutch, so I assume those 3 steps translate to:
1. Bittorrent Ubuntu
2. Burn it
3. Boot it
By Thomas on Oct 13, 2007
I agree completely. I’ve been running Ubuntu as my primary OS for a very long time now, and I really couldn’t be happier. It’s so easy to use, and it always works as designed. Rapid install and super-easy updates. This combined with the security you get… what more could you possibly want in an OS?
By Chris Brunner on Oct 13, 2007
MS shareholders must be getting a bit anxious. 6 years, billions of dollars and every one wants to go back to XP or even try Linux.
No wonder Mr Ballmer wants Linux sued out of existence, MS just cant compete any more !!
By PJB on Oct 13, 2007
PJB: That’s probably not true. It’s not that they _can’t_ compete, but that they won’t. You’ll note that there is nothing new at all in vista over XP (any of the new stuff could be hacked or patched in with third party software) and m$ knows it. They don’t care. They thought they could force vista because xp was ubiquitous, but they failed.
I have no doubt that m$ could program a quality OS, but they’d have to start from scratch and work their way up, and they’re just too lazy to do it. The current windows architecture is hopeless. It can’t be fixed, it has to be trashed.
All of the above: IMHO
By Nathan on Oct 13, 2007
Microsoft has downgrade rights. See :
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:QhRPqUZGi9kJ:download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/3/d23b9533-169d-4996-b198-7b9d3fe15611/downgrade_chart.doc+microsoft.com+xp+downgrade&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
and
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/4/5f4c83d3-833e-4f11-8cbd-699b0c164182/royaltyoemreferencesheet.pdf
By mATT on Oct 13, 2007
Not for the most common versions most people use at home though…..
By mckooiker on Oct 13, 2007