By Tim Ferguson
Published: Wednesday 01 October 2008
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Name
David Dewick
Location
Birmingham
Occupation
IT Manager
Comment
Lack of interest in Vista for business, or home use for that matter, is hardly surprising. Lack of drivers for peripherals such as scanners and printers is one issue, and even when new peripherals are bought, supposedly Vista compatible, often their functionality is compromised when compared to that available with XP. Inability to synchronise PDAs with Outlook, and the intrusiveness of UAC doesn't help. The inability, simply, to relocate users' My Documents folders in their entirety to a different disk drive without resorting to extensive registry hacks underlines Microsoft's lack of understanding of the needs of end users - why must they continue to assume that everyone is happy to dump everything on drive C:?
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