MSN problematic

Posted: 08-15-2006, 03:08 PM
I would like to upgrade to vista beta 2 but have heard that you cannot use
Msn Premium in Vista?! Is this going to be a permanent thing as i pay my
£6.99 a month, but what good will that be if I cannot get into Premium?

Also I have a lot saved in my MSN browser, favourites, links etc.... and
would like to keep all.... any advice and help would be GREATLY appreciated
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pvdg42
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-15-2006, 04:13 PM

"kimberwhitehead" <kimberwhitehead@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I would like to upgrade to vista beta 2 but have heard that you cannot use
> Msn Premium in Vista?! Is this going to be a permanent thing as i pay my
> £6.99 a month, but what good will that be if I cannot get into Premium?
>
> Also I have a lot saved in my MSN browser, favourites, links etc.... and
> would like to keep all.... any advice and help would be GREATLY
> appreciated
This is very probably *not* what you want to hear, but you asked for advice.

It sounds as if you are planning to replace a production OS on your every
day PC with a beta OS? I inferred that from your use of "upgrade".

If I am correct, the one word of advice is "don't".
Putting beta software of any kind on a production PC is risky, but
installing a beta OS that you *cannot uninstall and return to the production
OS* is increasing your probability of encountering irresolvable problems by
several orders of magnitude. If you look through the numerous tales of woe
posted here and in other Vista groups by people who "upgraded", you'll find
ample corroboration for this warning.

If you intend to proceed, make sure you back up all you data and be ready to
format your hard drive, reinstall your production OS and all your
applications if you run into trouble.

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Colin Barnhorst
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-15-2006, 04:30 PM
MSN9 Premium will install and will work but bad things will happen to things
like family member subaccounts, even on other computers. Other things go
wrong as well. MSN will release a Vista compatible version (MSN10?) by the
time Vista releases to manufacturing.

However this should not be a problem because you should not be using Vista
on a primary home computer anyway.

"kimberwhitehead" <kimberwhitehead@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I would like to upgrade to vista beta 2 but have heard that you cannot use
> Msn Premium in Vista?! Is this going to be a permanent thing as i pay my
> £6.99 a month, but what good will that be if I cannot get into Premium?
>
> Also I have a lot saved in my MSN browser, favourites, links etc.... and
> would like to keep all.... any advice and help would be GREATLY
> appreciated

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Chris Game
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-15-2006, 06:31 PM
Colin Barnhorst wrote:
> However this should not be a problem because you should not be
> using Vista on a primary home computer anyway.
On the other hand, when you've run it for a few weeks and nothing
drastic has gone wrong, and you're impressed with the look and feel
of the vista system, everyday things like news clients, browsers and
email tend to move to the new system!

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Colin Barnhorst
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-15-2006, 08:05 PM
Why? If you've got a perfectly well functioning primary computer whatever
you move to Vista is just more testing anyway.

"Chris Game" <chrisgame@example.net> wrote in message
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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>
>> However this should not be a problem because you should not be
>> using Vista on a primary home computer anyway.
>
> On the other hand, when you've run it for a few weeks and nothing
> drastic has gone wrong, and you're impressed with the look and feel
> of the vista system, everyday things like news clients, browsers and
> email tend to move to the new system!
>
> --
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>
> "Ignorance is Strength" - George Orwell, 1984.

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Colin Barnhorst
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-16-2006, 12:54 AM
Beta is a much misused word. Windows always will be moving along a
continuum of development and improvement. RTM is just a milestone in its
progress.

"Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>> Why? If you've got a perfectly well functioning primary computer
>> whatever you move to Vista is just more testing anyway.
>>
>
>
> I'm sure there's a version of Murphy's Law that applies here somewhere. I
> had absolutely no problems with Vista at all until I decided to make it my
> primary O/S. Then I lost my partition tables, lost networking, and now
> every time I close down Firefox with the option of clearing out the cache
> the machine decides to reboot and corrupts the cache instead.
>
> It is officially beta and when that comes from Microsoft you can bet the
> farm it means the software is unpredictable at best. Even when it is
> officially released as a saleable product you might be well advised to
> consider it beta until at least the first service pack.

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Posted: 08-16-2006, 08:07 AM
Colin Barnhorst wrote:
> Why? If you've got a perfectly well functioning primary computer whatever
> you move to Vista is just more testing anyway.
>

I'm sure there's a version of Murphy's Law that applies here somewhere.
I had absolutely no problems with Vista at all until I decided to make
it my primary O/S. Then I lost my partition tables, lost networking, and
now every time I close down Firefox with the option of clearing out the
cache the machine decides to reboot and corrupts the cache instead.

It is officially beta and when that comes from Microsoft you can bet the
farm it means the software is unpredictable at best. Even when it is
officially released as a saleable product you might be well advised to
consider it beta until at least the first service pack.
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-16-2006, 09:58 AM
Sorry to shout but sometimes you have to..

DO NOT INSTALL VISTA BETA ON ANY PRIMARY PRODUCTION MACHINE AS DATA LOSS AND
PROGRAM/HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY MAY BECOME AN ISSUE...ITS IS BETA...NOT A
FINISHED PRODUCT....

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
> Beta is a much misused word. Windows always will be moving along a
> continuum of development and improvement. RTM is just a milestone in its
> progress.
>
> "Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:OfV8j%23LwGHA.3372@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Colin Barnhorst wrote:
> >> Why? If you've got a perfectly well functioning primary computer
> >> whatever you move to Vista is just more testing anyway.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm sure there's a version of Murphy's Law that applies here somewhere. I
> > had absolutely no problems with Vista at all until I decided to make it my
> > primary O/S. Then I lost my partition tables, lost networking, and now
> > every time I close down Firefox with the option of clearing out the cache
> > the machine decides to reboot and corrupts the cache instead.
> >
> > It is officially beta and when that comes from Microsoft you can bet the
> > farm it means the software is unpredictable at best. Even when it is
> > officially released as a saleable product you might be well advised to
> > consider it beta until at least the first service pack.
>
>
>
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Chris Game
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-16-2006, 05:08 PM
Colin Barnhorst wrote:
> Beta is a much misused word. Windows always will be moving along
> a continuum of development and improvement. RTM is just a
> milestone in its progress.
This is true - and in the web 2.0 world apps are in continual beta
anyway.

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not tried it." -- Donald E. Knuth
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Re: MSN problematic
Posted: 08-16-2006, 05:10 PM
Bernie wrote:
> Ron Rector wrote:
>> Sorry to shout but sometimes you have to..
>>
>> DO NOT INSTALL VISTA BETA ON ANY PRIMARY PRODUCTION MACHINE AS
>> DATA LOSS AND PROGRAM/HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY MAY BECOME AN
>> ISSUE...ITS IS BETA...NOT A FINISHED PRODUCT....
>>
>
> And your point is...
Ignorable. This news client I'm using claims to be beta38 but it's
as strong as an ox.

Of course there may be specifics in vista that would urge more
caution...

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