First, if you are on lockergnome.com, then you are probably familiar with Chris’ Windows Vista Experience.

Well let me tell you mine have been no better, however it has been different. I started testing Vista at Beta 1, dual booting it with my XP install. Hardware problems were first to show up, not only from the lack of drivers standpoint, but “faulty” drivers as well.

Lack of drivers was and regrettably still is a big issue, regardless of Microsoft PR.

PRINTER ISSUES
My color laser printer from Konica-Minolta (less than two years old) doesn’t work the way it is supposed to. They claim that the Windows XP driver will work, it might, but the Network Printer functions do NOT, and that is how it is installed. Sure, I could “work around” that and share it on the same network. But that means the machine that it is connected to must be on for it to be available.

My next post will give the details of my dual boot corruption issues.

Tags: windows vista, microsoft, printers