Quote:
Originally Posted by arkay
"Most" people on this board are hear looking for help for the things that don't/won't work or ways to kludge in functionality that isn't available. 10 of the regulars having an ok time doesn't warrant "most" to me and "most" of them are running beta drivers and multiple hacks to get a decent experience.
As for the grow up comment. It's a public board. I'll say what I like with reference to a company that can and should do a hell of a lot better than it does (in my opinion). Thanks. Perhaps if more people were less willing to except mediocre then we'd all get better products.
Cheers,
Arkay.
|
If it were only "10 of the regulars" that were having an ok time with VMC/MCE given the thousands of users on this board then I would expect it to be far busier than it is.
I would agree with you that many people having problem are trying to shoehorn in functionality that in some cases would have been nice to work out-of-the-box (e.g., AVI playback) but in other cases are just silly (who needs big screen weather?) and/or are trying to use their VMC as a general purpose computer as well as for VMC. This entails loading the box up with all kinds of addtional programs (email, anti-virus stuff, firewalls, cd/dvd editing sftware, the list is endless) with all of
their attendent drivers, .dll's and so forth. Natually the person never even bothered to check if their hardware was up to it in the first place. And suddenly when VMC checks a wobbly because of all this is is magically MS's fault. Please.
I also agree that this is a public board and one can say what one feels like about any company. In return, I'll point out when those comments are juvenile/declasse'.
And around and around we go.
Oz