in 617552 20070217 014725 "OG" wrote:
"Malcolm Race" wrote in message
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Ater a torrid time trying to help a friend install Virgin (aka NTL
Broadband on a new Dell laptop with Vista installed I have been told
categorically by the Virgin helpline that they do no support Vista.
Slightly alarming as it seems that all new computers ship with Vista
pre-installed.


Basically to summarise the previous resonses

Virgin are unprepared for Vista
Why blame Vista ?

Maybe because one is not being unreasonable in expecting an operating
system to be backward-compatible?
Especially when one is given no choice as to which OS is loaded on a new machine.