{"id":53,"date":"2007-07-24T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaphile.com\/2007\/07\/24\/Hey+Acer+CEO+YOU+Are+Part+Of+The+Vista+Problem.aspx"},"modified":"2011-06-09T04:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T11:50:16","slug":"hey-acer-ceo-you-are-part-of-the-vista-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/24\/hey-acer-ceo-you-are-part-of-the-vista-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Acer CEO &#8211; YOU are Part of the Vista Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gianfranco Lanci, you&#8217;re an uninformed CEO if you don&#8217;t know that the disappointment is in YOUR company&#8217;s lack of driver support, unintelligible support and download site. How can you state:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the industry had waited for years for Vista, the software was not really ready when it was launched to great pomp at the start of this year&#8221; when your company has done so little itself?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t blame Microsoft. You&#8217;ve had more than enough time to join the party.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my Ferrari 5000 runs like a dream under x64 Ultimate, but my Ferrari 4000 is still missing updated drivers for the pccard controller and media reader\/card slot. Yeah, the 3 year old ones from XP x64 still work, sorta, almost. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=wlWriterSmartContent id=32a77b7a-5ea4-47be-84fc-ff7471384e10:06681553-b64f-47e6-a8c1-9e0f4848f4ea contentEditable=false style=\"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news104405791.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/content\/binary\/HeyAcerCEOYOUarePartoftheProblem_56B0\/2827323b706444f5b342c30f1ddc35a3.jpg\" border=0\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;schmuck&#8221; comes to mind.<\/p>\n<div class=wlWriterSmartContent id=0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0bbd7e21-8d60-4ded-9c75-2753a7aa300d contentEditable=false style=\"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Vista\" rel=tag>Vista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Acer\" rel=tag>Acer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Ferrari%205000\" rel=tag>Ferrari 5000<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Ferrari%204000\" rel=tag>Ferrari 4000<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gianfranco Lanci, you&#8217;re an uninformed CEO if you don&#8217;t know that the disappointment is in YOUR company&#8217;s lack of driver support, unintelligible support and download site. 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