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Wed, Sep 19 2007 11:59 bradley

"I've heard"

Was chatting with a fellow geek who said he's been talking with a number of folks who say "I don't like Vista" and then he asks "Oh, do you use it?" and the answer is "No, but I've heard things about it".

http://www.vladville.com/2007/09/how-hard-does-vista-suck.html

While I know that the video driver vendors need to shoulder the blame, and I'd also say beware of things that say "Vista compatible" rather than "Vista Certified" and I guess I'm being unrealistic that the cdrom shipped with a newly released Lacie 1 Terabyte ethernet hard disk doesn't have a Vista driver on it, which means I'm having to rethink how I'm connecting it to my network at home. 

Every OEM Vista I've touched, after removing the extra crud the manufacturer put on there (the Yahoo search box in the system tool bar), has worked like a champ. 

So how about we stop with the "I've heard" and getting more hands on opinions out here?

Btw, "I've heard" the Lotus Symphony spreadsheet has some interesting features, but given their server is straining a bit I can't give you a personal review.  "I've heard" folks still prefer Open Office better.

 

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:18 PM by Owen WIlliams

I agree.  Vista has definitely taken some getting used to - what major OS upgrade doesn't? - but other than a [serious] wireless driver issue which was fixed by _downgrading_ the driver, it's been working like a champ for me.  The new built-in Complete PC Backup (i.e., native Vista image backup) works like a champ and enabled a Complete Restore in less than 30 minutes when that naughty driver trashed my notebook.

# re: "I've heard"

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:56 PM by Don Murphy

Another thing one can do ifor appliction is run ACT (www.microsoft.com/.../ApplicationCompatibility)

This is a great tool that uses three mechanisms to test and report  how well your application will work under Vista.

Check it out....

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:54 PM by andrew cameron

I bought a new dell desktop with everything including Vista Ultimate to learn Vista. The experience has not been good. The CD burning software it shipped with was not fully Vista compatible, Dell's fault. The video card I chose was listed as Vista compatible and with a listed 256mb of ram you would think it was okay but the video is a dog. I have resorted to turning off most of the ete candy to speed it up. It already had 2 gig of ram but I think it really needs another 2 gig. Some parts of Vista are unworkable, I have maybe 20 VPN's setup and accessing them is takes 5 minutes. Just to open the windows to choose which one I want ! Office 2007 is so slow on Vista its a joke. Maybe after SP1 Vista might be ok for some business uses but the hardware requirements are massive. Just loaded Vista 64 business onto AMD box to try it  for speed. Hopefully it wil be better otherwise Vista gets the thumbs down. And I loved XP when it first came out.

# re: "I've heard"

Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:22 AM by Craig Brown

Great Article. So very true...

I have used for Vista over a year and love it.

I often get staff coming up to me and saying the exact same thing having never used Vista. I also have a few staff who have recently purchased new machines and are having no problems with Vista.

# re: "I've heard"

Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:27 PM by Graeme Smith

We are now a full Vista shop on Workstations, service technician laptops, sales force laptops (the most important) and tablets.

We retain a virtual XP SP2 box in workshop for reference and the tech machines can boot back to XP if need be..

Jump in and "WORK THE PROBLEM"*

Going back to XP from Vista is now like going back to Windows 3.11 from Windows 98 - it sucks.  Once you get used to the differences they are - in the main - really GOOD differences.

* "Work the problem" Gene Kranz - mission controller when he was trying to bring the remains of Apollo 13 home in 1971 (and they has a whopping 128k of memory out there on the far side of the moon - man they used to code more efficiently in those days!....)

# re: "I've heard"

Friday, September 21, 2007 10:45 AM by Nick

I can't say that I really love it, or hate it... much like XP... it just "Is".  I've been using it since January on my main laptop... do I like it?  Sure.  Is it better than XP - probably.  I've been using it since January, and think it's fine.  If it were a $100k Porsche I'd be more passionate one way or the other... but a for $200?  It's more than adequate.

Here's a recent post I did on it...

addicted-to-it.blogspot.com/.../do-you-care-about-vista.html