makryger wrote:Lets cool things off a bit folks.
In the end, we can summarize tHis extra conversation fairly easily: it's true all the w7/8 users are not having the sign in problem anymore. We have one vista user that reports the issue is persistant. And much like when the bug was happening in w7, m0dular, you are at the mercy of netflix and microsoft. Theres nothing that we can do to fix it on our own. Your choices are: 1) try to troubleshoot with the companies. 2) use a web browser to access netflix or 3) upgrade to w7. and to upgrade has to be your decision, because you have different opnions of the windows versions than most users.
You're right - I'ld have to program a new plugin for WMC for vista x64 to get netflix to work again. 1 - We both know the first option will lead to a dead end. 2 - I can do this but then the IR Remote for WMC won't work with netflix 3 - This isn't an option - and here's why - I'm tired of purchasing new operating systems from Microsoft. They've done the same thing for years and years and it's old. They'll build an os like windows 3.1 then come out with something new - like 95 (which was awesome) 98 still had a large number of technical improvements and was a good os in my opinion - then they tried it again - with ME and it failed - hard... XP came out and revamped so much - the GUI no longer booted from a secondary operating system like DOS and used NT architecture - Big improvement. Then Vista... Vista was in itself revolutionary - I could go on but it did face a lot of hurdles and not all of those hurdles were addressed because Microsoft took their standard route of taking an older operating system and trying to "revamp it" or in the case with windows 8 "Re-imagine" it. Windows 7 was mainly GUI features that changed and 8 is basically no different. 7 came from Vista - 8 came from 7. You can see it in the architecture. They made configurability
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscripting ... tions.aspxa problem. What exactly happened with the network and sharing center for example? A huge problem with network locations within Vista that didn't get addressed other than removing the function completely within 8 and required the user to use DOS commands to adjust network properties. True you could do this with 7 and Vista but the problem wasn't addressed in either operating system support wise. 8 came under the pretense that it would be more suitable with newer windows phones and connectivity would be better under the cloud environment so it is clear that Microsoft has plans for improvement for the future but will they act on those plans? I guess we'll have to pay to find out, won't we? And when we do, will we actually see anyone claiming responsibility for developed software from the company? Probably not - we'll encounter #1 in the list - and they'll try and charge you their absorbent prices for that support and let you hash it out in the forums where you encounter countless trolls and people who don't listen. At any rate - here is what I remember -
Back when people actually wanted Microsoft software - now it's pushed on them. Not that I haven't studied for Server 2012 or Windows 8 - but basically all of the same features are there just in a different GUI and minor technical changes like the usage of GPT as opposed to UEFI. To clarify - WMC was not included with the pre-release of 8 from MS (I got the enterprise version and it probably wouldn't run it anyways) and from a technical standpoint, how should I portray the newer OS considering what I've seen come out of MS before? Maybe the GNU license isn't such a bad idea at this point. Here's the bottom line - I saw advancements between 3.1, 95, 98, XP, and Vista but I see no major advancements from operating systems like ME, or 7, or 8 (other than GUI and hard drive space). Server 2012 is kinda cool though - with console only mode - reminds me of Unix. Taking all of this into consideration, do any of us ever remember Microsoft making a public release about being sorry about windows ME? Do you think they will do it in the future? Perhaps it isn't the OS that needs to be upgraded but the business model.
