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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / October 2004LEGAL ACTION AGAINST MS FOR THE VirtualPC 7 - 2GB+ RAM ISSUE?
This is too true: I have 3GB RAM in a dual G5, abd VPC7 truly screwed up my primary drive. I do not doubt that Microsoft knew prior to releasing the product that this was a bug. What really pisses me off is the fact that the G5 is what neccessitated the development of VPC7. Which means that a large number of people purchasing this product have G5 computers. Which means they probably have a budget for equipment. Which means they probably have a little RAM. Which means they are probably GOING TO LOSE A LOT OF WORK when VPC7 screws up their drive. Fatally. I lost a lot of work. It will have to be done over. I already billed for those hours. The hours I spend rebuilding are lost hours - it isn't my customers' fault that Microsoft knowingly released a defective product. Is anyone taking any legal action on this issue? Please let me know. > I lost a lot of work. It will have to be done over. I already billed > for those hours. The hours I spend rebuilding are lost hours - it > isn't my customers' fault that Microsoft knowingly released a > defective product. While I sympathize with your lost work and time, many other things as well can cause data loss. If your drive had failed would you want to sue Apple? If a power surge fried your machine would you want to sue the electric company? You'd probably have a case if Microsoft did knowingly publish software they knew could destroy data, but the burden would be on you to show intent or negligence on their part. Apart from this, failure to protect your important data with backups can be seen as negligence on your part. Backup maintenance is a bother to implement sometimes but it's necessary whether you're in the right or the wrong of a situation. bill  SignatureWilliam M. Smith (Microsoft Interop MVP) >>I lost a lot of work. It will have to be done over. I already billed >>for those hours. The hours I spend rebuilding are lost hours - it [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > bill I learned many years ago that when dealing with MS software backups are essential. I cloned my primary drive prior to installing VPC7 and am glad I did because I had to use it to recover my system. >> bill > > I learned many years ago that when dealing with MS software backups are > essential. I cloned my primary drive prior to installing VPC7 and am > glad I did because I had to use it to recover my system. Me too. First conversion failed but I HAD made a copy of my VPC document prior to trying the upgrade and am VERY glad I did. Robin On 10/21/04 12:23 PM, in article mecklists-0ABB70.22233720102004@msnews.microsoft.com, "William Smith" <mecklists@REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com> wrote: > Apart from this, failure to protect your important data with backups can > be seen as negligence on your part. Backup maintenance is a bother to > implement sometimes but it's necessary whether you're in the right or > the wrong of a situation. Well, it's not that bothersome anymore. I use Carbon Copy Cloner and update to a mirrored drive every day. It amazes me that anyone would create huge files and not back them up. ANYthing can cause cause data loss. On 10/21/04 10:47 PM, in article 10nffg4d75qh293@corp.supernews.com, "Bill Leeper" <wleeper@actionnet.net> wrote: > I learned many years ago that when dealing with MS software backups are > essential. I cloned my primary drive prior to installing VPC7 and am > glad I did because I had to use it to recover my system. This isn't just an issue regarding MS products. Gene van Troyer ------------------------------------------- | Office 2004 | OSX.3.4 | PBG4 | iMac 20" | ------------------------------------------- > On 10/21/04 12:23 PM, in article > mecklists-0ABB70.22233720102004@msnews.microsoft.com, "William Smith" [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > | Office 2004 | OSX.3.4 | PBG4 | iMac 20" | > ------------------------------------------- My point really was that coming from a PC background for more years than I like to think about I learned that backing up is essential. More of my problems requiring the use of backups was as a result of OS failures than any other cause. Anyway, the backup philosophy carried over to the Mac side and while I feel that it is not as critical to backup before installing every program, I was taking no chances when installing a MS program. Let's just say that all those years on the PC side have made me a bit gun shy where they are concerned and leave it at that. :-) |
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