my Win7 debacle

[PRISONER 24601]

Ordered a copy of the Windows 7 Pro DVD (29 bucks for students), and on a whim I picked up a Lenovo S10-2 along with it. Free shipping, decent price, why not? I needed a netbook anyway.

The next day I found out they got my address wrong, called MS, talked with Indians for 2 ****ing hours, got the address thing worked out. I also cancelled the Lenovo order cause I found a good deal on those Latitude 2100 netbooks on the dell education refurb site.

Anyway, I get an email from UPS for tracking, (late as usual) it said "DELIVERED, LEFT ON PORCH" etc etc. ffffffffffffffffff
The ppl at MS never changed my address, and they never cancelled the Lenovo. Those jackasses assured me that the address was fixed and the netbook would not be sent.

Now, my whole order (new netbook and win7) is probably at one of my neighbor's houses, gonna have to go over there and "meet" them tomorrow. Hopefully they haven't already torn the box open and discovered their new "presents"... What the hell? It's got MY name on it, I better not get screwed by M$, gonna phone them tomorrow and express my disapproval.

I just wanted some windows, should it really be this difficult? For the first time in my life, i'm not stealing Microsoft software, instead it's getting stolen from me. Oh, the poetic irony. The woe of it all!
 
I really hope I don't have to sue someone over this. Microsoft is turning this into the winter of my pissedofedness. All this after a kickass summer, now it's all cloudy and I feel like jumping in the ****ing ocean.

[D-EJ915]

since when does MS sell lenovos...

[skriefal]

Since the release of Windows 7:

http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Computers-Netbooks/category/411

[timw4mail]

Wait, since when does Microsoft have the reputation for good customer service?

[alexlzl]

Your best bet probably is calling your credit card company and dispute this order. If you have the phone call history etc it will be helpful.

[PRISONER 24601]

My nice neighbors swung by and deliver the package this morning (without even asking). What a nice gesture!

Open the package, and the "white" Lenovo I ordered is pink and covered in flowers.

sigh, well, i was gonna return it anyway.

[PRISONER 24601]

Microsoft is making a BIG HIT with their online store I see.

Hi, I'm a PC and I'm sitting here on hold with customer support listening to "stars in your eyeeeees" over and over again

it's a good thing i have plenty of xanax

[Kraicheck]

Open the package, and the "white" Lenovo I ordered is pink and covered in flowers.

This is your own fault, the pictures clearly show the pattern and colour.

[microsoft windows]

There's an advantage in not being too interested in any computer gear mainstream people would ever want.

[ch_123]

People still buy software?

[ironcoder]

Yep and they better keep doing it at least until I retire.

[ch_123]

I was rather fortunate in that not long after I stopped pirating software, I started college and thus got free Windows licenses from MS.

[Viett]

Open the package, and the "white" Lenovo I ordered is pink and covered in flowers.

Haha. They got you good.

[D-EJ915]

yeah the colouring of the lenovo is pretty obvious on their page...

[ch_123]

Speaking of Lenovo, I recently got a set of these for my T61 -

Link.

[PRISONER 24601]

I didn't order it online, i ordered it over the phone and the rep told me it was the 'white' model. I was at school.

I got the managers involved and they're pissed off, I'm gonna get some form of compensation I hope.

[PRISONER 24601]

So, they're sending me a free copy of Win7 Ultimate. Thanks a lot Microsoft. Now I have three copies I'll never use.

[iMav]

I love my HP mini 2140 HD.  I don't think I'd considering using a netbook again with less than 768 of vertical resolution.  (it was painful doing anything useful with my Acer Aspire One).

[iMav]

Thank Intel for the silly screen and RAM restrictions on netbooks.  Ram is  getting better as is screen resolution but boy it's going slowly.

My HP has 2GB ram and 1366x768 screen resolution.

[ch_123]

Thank Intel for the silly screen and RAM restrictions on netbooks.

Given how Intel and MS don't really like Netbooks, I often wonder why they don't just abandon the market to Linux and ARM... It would create a nice seperation between Netbooks as they were originally intended to be used, and proper PCs, which is what the big companies want to sell lots of because they are more profitable.

[itlnstln]

For Intel, it's simply a matter of sales.  There's another, lucrative revenue stream in Atom.  MS, though, I wonder about more.  Other than their relationship with Intel, I'm not sure why they cater to the netbook market.  I wonder, too, if AMD will get into the netbook mix.

[PRISONER 24601]

I have a Dell Latitude 2100 coming in the mail. The thing is built like a Russian Tank, and colored like a Cuban Tank. Best of both worlds: east meets west.

It's covered in dodgeball rubber and outspecs my Lenovo nicely... It was also 100 bucks cheaper.

[ch_123]

They seem to offer Vista as an OS for it... I thought it was rather sly of MS when they said that manufacturers could sell Vista as a downgrade of W7 if the customer desired.

[microsoft windows]

Who would want Vista in the first place?

[ch_123]

Before WIndows 7, there was a case to be made for 64-bit Windows Vista being better than 64-bit Windows XP (the latter had some rather lackluster driver and software support). Of course it's all irrelevant now because 7 beats them both anyway.

[itlnstln]

I didn't really like XP x64 much.  It's not that it was bad, in fact, it was probably more stable that its 32 bit cousin, but since it was a "port" (more or less) of Server 2003, some of the UI and usability elements seemed a little kludgy. And like ch_123 said, the driver and software support wasn't particularly stellar.

[tamasrepus]

With the quality of Microsoft's products, did you really have high expectations from their online store, OR them doing anything where they have to interact directly with customers?

[ch_123]

I had to set up a printer on my neighbour's brand new Dell Windows 7 machine. The machine had 4GB of RAM, and an Athlon X2 CPU - the same configuration I had before I basically got to upgrade to a quad core for free... Anyway, the thing was frighteningly slow to use for a machine that was fresh out of the box. In particular, after logging in, it would completely freeze up for 2-3 seconds before giving you control of the cursor. On my machine at home, the much less stable and optimized betas and RCs ran like a dream, even several months after installation.

It really makes you realize - Windows may be far from the finest OS ever conceived, but what really lets it down is the crappy software that people write for it, and the way OEMs implement it on their machines. One might say that this is a massive cop-out argument because for the vast majority of cases, these are the two sides of the same coin. The point is moreso that if Mac OS X or Linux was the de facto standard, they'd have just as many problems as Windows does now, and we'd hate them just as much.

[itlnstln]

Pretty much.  I put a clean install of Win 7 on my Dell Quad Core, and it is noticably faster than my previous XP x64 install (another clean install).  For it to be slow on your friends PC, there must have been a ton of OEM bloatware in that Win 7 install.  You're right though, in many cases it's the OEM bloatware that gives Windows (or, potentially, any OS) it's bad name.

[Shuki]

Not to be an internet cliché but Dell directly injects failure into any PC it puts together.

I've seen this on so many Dell machines ;_;