Windows Vista – Hardware Compatibility Issues
Early up-graders to Windows Vista are reporting annoyance by the loads of software and hardware incompatibilities coming to the fore as they use Windows Vista. For the record the Redmond, Wash., software giant launched Vista and a companion update called Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update to the market on Jan 30. Seems like they expected a lot of issues with the system because they made sure that Vista patches were available on the net even before the Compact disks of the operating system left the factory.
That update, KB929427, makes good some of the more challenging application incompatibilities, but the nightmare is far from over, for the early bird upgraders. There is nothing new about
compatibility issues when a new operating system is launched, however, Vista is not only has a number of incompatibilities with existing applications but also lacks many drivers for critical hardware components and hardware peripherals. Support for Vista hardware is compounded by the fact that most vendors have not created drivers of their hardware that is compatible for Vista making support more of a headache. This is understood when it comes to peripherals such as printers and scanners but so far as critical hardware components such as hard drives, chipset controllers and video cards are concerned the lack of compatibility will crash the system. The manufacturers of primary components of the computer hardware system are just not ready with their wares to support Vista.
Early adopters of Vista have the following problems to contend with:
They will face a drastic lack of available drivers vendors leading to conflicts in applications.
New peripheral hardware components will lack compatible Vista drivers and the old components drivers will simply refuse to work in most cases.
New security feature often flags existing applications as suspicious and interrupts service
The OS automatically recommends which Vista versions is best for each PC’s configuration. This will cause small businesses to download different versions of Vista.
SO in the ultimate analysis, Vista may seem attractive in it’s packaging but it still has far to go.
on January 17, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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I have Vista 64-bit (home premium), and the only hardware issue I experienced was being unable to find drivers for the WiFi-AP SOLO feature that was built into my ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe motherboard.
If you have some older printers, you might have issues as well, but your graphics card and new motherboard should support 64-bit vista.
on January 17, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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Windows vista had a lot of problems when it first came out because a lot of hardware manufacturers had not got their act together and had not produced compatible drivers. That has changed now because vista has been around for well over a year.
Another layer of problems have now been fixed by the release of a service pack (SP1) for vista.
The only remaining problems are some older software that will probably neverrun in vista because it is obsolete and the makers do not want to spend development cash on it. In many cases a new vista compatible version will have been released.
Overall you should not have problems now – like the early vista users – unless you use particular obsolete software titles.
on January 17, 2008 at 5:58 pm
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on January 17, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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on January 18, 2008 at 12:42 pm
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There are plenty of STATED reasons for the compatibility issues. While anyone who knows computers know that those reason are ridiculous and that it's deliberate, there is very little proof of that. Microsoft is not required to create compatible software, as long as they don't claim compatibility. Microsoft is doing what Microsoft does best: forcing customers to dish out money for products that they don't need and don't work properly.
As for what you can do as a consumer, go the Mac route. you can install Vista or XP (I recommend XP if you can get away with it) on your Mac via Boot Camp and you can even get a Mac from Macmall with Windows preinstalled and a copy of Parallels Desktop, which allows you run Windows at the same time as Mac. You would be able to use your Mac to connect to your router and then use a virtual network to port the network to windows…which is done automatically.
Good luck and sorry that you're yet another victim of Microsoft.
on January 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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