# Microsoft sucks.... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 27, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738 "2007-10-27T21:07:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BadnewsMike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/badnewsmike/32/7419_2.png) [@BadnewsMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BadnewsMike)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/1 "2007-10-27T21:07:39Z")
So I have 2 Toshiba’s Laptop computers both equipped with Vista, one pro the other basic… For work I use Microcrap Streets and Trips 2007 (upgraded to 08 it sucked went back to 07)… I have been using it with a hulux GPS device and it works awesome… but I have gone threw 3 of those… so I decided to buy the “better” microcrap one… (pharo gps-360 badged with Microsoft’s name) so I received the new one, plugged it in, Vista auto installed drivers… I restarted and replugged it in… found it right of way put it on Com port 2 I started up Streets & Trips and the program cant find it… when I force it to use that com port it tells me its not “input/output set to deliver nmea” I went threw Microsoft’s help page trying everything they said but nothing helped… I also decided to see if my hulax drivers where corrupting my Microsoft drivers so I installed Streets and trips on the Vista basic (my wife’s computer) and plug the device into her’s and I got the same message. I’m thinking about returning the GPS and going back to my hulax… grrrr ---
**Author:** ![sureshot007](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot007/32/7345_2.png) [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/2 "2007-10-28T05:12:57Z")
I’d think about going back to XP Pro. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/3 "2007-10-28T07:03:22Z")
fucking werd, i wouldn’t trust vista with important shit just yet ---
**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/4 "2007-10-28T07:35:31Z")
Works great with XP, use it daily. 15.4 inch GPS \> \* ---
**Author:** ![BadnewsMike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/badnewsmike/32/7419_2.png) [@BadnewsMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BadnewsMike)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/5 "2007-10-28T08:52:55Z")
[quote=“jabbu,post:4,topic:37738"”] Works great with XP, use it daily. 15.4 inch GPS \> \* [/quote] agree, but what GPS device are you using? are you using the Microsoft one? ---
**Author:** ![Djs87](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/djs87/32/5132_2.png) [@Djs87](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Djs87)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/6 "2007-10-28T09:35:11Z")
Vista is just about ready for everybody to adopt. If you’ll remember how long it took xp to become widely used. it wasn’t until after the first service pack that it became a good os. Vista sp1 is set to come out this November I believe. ---
**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/7 "2007-10-28T09:35:31Z")
Nope, think its a holux, i know its got the sirf III chip. ---
**Author:** ![BadnewsMike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/badnewsmike/32/7419_2.png) [@BadnewsMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BadnewsMike)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/8 "2007-10-28T09:41:51Z")
[quote=“jabbu,post:7,topic:37738"”] Nope, think its a holux, i know its got the sirf III chip. [/quote] ya thats what I was using and still use… I got the microsoft one to replace my broken hulax and it wont read… gay ---
**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/9 "2007-10-28T10:11:49Z")
You went through 3 holux? Where are you mounting them? ---
**Author:** ![BadnewsMike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/badnewsmike/32/7419_2.png) [@BadnewsMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BadnewsMike)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/10 "2007-10-28T11:18:03Z")
on the dash, but I plug, unplug, them about 3 times aday and use it for 10 hours a day… I run my own business doing delivery’s all over WNY… ---
**Author:** ![sureshot007](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot007/32/7345_2.png) [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-sucks/37738/11 "2007-10-28T15:47:24Z")
[quote=“Djs87,post:6,topic:37738"”] Vista is just about ready for everybody to adopt. If you’ll remember how long it took xp to become widely used. it wasn’t until after the first service pack that it became a good os. Vista sp1 is set to come out this November I believe. [/quote] That doesn’t mean you should use it while it doesn’t work with your stuff.