Windows Vista A Smooth Transition Or A Pain In The A**

[CPLTD]

Hiya Guy's

How many of you are now using Vista on your business machines or have decided to stick with ye ol faithful XP ,
Have you ventured into the vista world now that service pack 1 has been offically released or are compatiblity issues hindering you from making the leap,
I would love to hear your feedback as most machines business or domestic are now shipping with Vista, Be we have many customers that will only take a system with XP installed.


Best Wishes

[monaghan]

I've been running Vista 64 (and 32 on another machine the wife uses) for quite a while now. Both machines were built for Vista so have no compatibility issues with hardware. The only real pain was Quicken & Quickbooks, but Intuit have junked the UK Quicken and I never actually got the accounts migrated to Quickbooks, so the fact that the older version didn't run was not too much of an issue.

I've also just put in 2 Dell laptops running Vista 32 and Office 2007 for a local charity, these connect OK to the samba server and printer and I've (so far) had no issues reported.

[lin robinson]

Actually, it's been far from smooth. MS users are rebelling against the new system and Redmond has pushed back the "timeline" for killing off XP.
Article about that here in COMPUTER WORLD

Anecdotally, I live in a tiny island in Mexico, OK. I'm not at the hub of the computer world. And I've talked to 20 people who bought computers with Vista, then took them back to have the OS removed and replaced...at extra cost...with XP.

I've heard of several companies and organizations (the only one I remember is Penn State University) telling people NOT to install the service pack because it messes things up worse.

All this from the "OS That Had No Compelling Reason To Exist"

I don't ever remember anything like that happening before. It's like something people don't want is being foisted off on people against their will and they are refusing it, but the powers that be are proceeding to give it to them anyway.

Thank God politics isn't like that.

[CPLTD]

Superb Posts Lin,Alex

Many thanks for your valued feedback.

[Brian Turner]

Personally I've avoided Vista to date - I know XP does exactly what I need it to do, while all Vista seems to offer is a slightly prettier but resource-hogging interface, with far less functionality due to compatibility issues.

In a standalone environment with all new hardware and software, am sure Vista runs great - but so many of us I figure have to rely on older software and hardware configurations. There seems no point in ditching these and spending 100's or 1000's on new for all of these, just to ensure the ability to buy into Vista.

2c.

[CPLTD]

Yes I have to agree with you, The main selling point seems to be the GUI and not the enhanced security features that Microsoft raved on about pre-release, I'll give it at least two more years before I make a return visit to the depths of sea Vista.

[monaghan]

It will be interesting to see what they do with XP now that Vista SP1 is out. Corporates will continue to have access to XP via the Select agreements, OEM's may well be "encouraged" to drop XP

[bumfluff]

I updated the comps at work with the Vista SP1 - dear sweet Lord... it actually runs slower now. They now take even longer to see network shares.

I'm really tempted to recommend they buy copies of XP. I'm spending half my time troubleshooting rather than any constructive work.

Still, on the plus side, at least I didn't get Vista for my own computer.

::edit::
Why the **** would anyone buy a new, more powerful computer and/or OS in order to have it run slower than their old one??? I've heard a lot of it is down to the DRM checks that Vista does. Vista doesn't seem aimed at making user's lives better, it's aimed at keeping the music and movie industries happy. There appears to be **** all benefit to ME.

[CPLTD]

Why the **** would anyone buy a new, more powerful computer and/or OS in order to have it run slower than their old one??? I've heard a lot of it is down to the DRM checks that Vista does. Vista doesn't seem aimed at making user's lives better, it's aimed at keeping the music and movie industries happy. There appears to be **** all benefit to ME.

I was waiting for somebody to mention the drm issue in Vista which is apperently hoggin resouces,

[lin robinson]

OEM's may well be "encouraged" to drop XP

If you look at that Computer World article, is has the specific timetable for when such "encouragement" occurs and proceeds to extinction (and, Redmond hopes, genocide)