I knew a guy who worked there around 2007-2008. They had so many customer complaints about Vista that the manager told the employees to suggest installing XP on new machines. Imagine paying for a new PC, then paying another ~$400 for a Geek Squad employee to sell and install an outdated OS. Insane.
100%, and Vista was a hot garbage RAM hog. It’s still extortionate to charge that much more on a new PC, especially considering they probably had a working XP key on their old machine.
I knew a guy who worked there around 2007-2008. They had so many customer complaints about Vista that the manager told the employees to suggest installing XP on new machines. Imagine paying for a new PC, then paying another ~$400 for a Geek Squad employee to sell and install an outdated OS. Insane.
Tbf, XP was solid though
100%, and Vista was a hot garbage RAM hog. It’s still extortionate to charge that much more on a new PC, especially considering they probably had a working XP key on their old machine.
I mean, there’s not that much else you can do if someone doesn’t like Vista. Maybe disable some Vista-specific behavior.
Booting the OS took like 2.5 GB of RAM. In 2007. There was no saving it. Lol