"I've heard"

re: "I've heard"

Nick — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:45:04 GMT

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

re: "I've heard"

Graeme Smith — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:27:48 GMT

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"

Craig Brown — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:22:58 GMT

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"

andrew cameron — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:54:49 GMT

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"

Don Murphy — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:56:05 GMT

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....

re: "I've heard"

Owen WIlliams — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:18:37 GMT

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.