Anybody with plans to use it ever?

Post #277,703 by JayMehaffey 3/8/07 8:53:05 AM Reply	Anybody with plans to use it ever? It is rather amazing that in this group nobody has substantially worked with Vista yet. Where I work the only guy that has tried it is the network admin. And there are no plans to role it out any time soon. We still run Win2000 on some machines because XP blows up some of our internally developed applications. That should give you an idea what our upgrade schedule is. Is there anybody even planning on using it? Jay This probably says more about the quality of the applications then of XP.
Post #277,704 by pwhysall 3/8/07 8:56:09 AM Reply	Not willingly, I wot. It'll turn up on my work PC at some point, I'm sure; but I don't give a monkey's about that, because as stated elsewhere, I'm paid to use that and the maintenance of it is SEP. At home? Nah. No point. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #277,719 by Steve Lowe 3/8/07 11:39:06 AM Reply	Aye. Eventually our customers will be running it. We've tested our apps on it successfully, so no real reason for us to upgrade yet. IF it can run in a VM, I'll probably buy a copy a year or two down the road. The cool thing is, we support our apps on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), and Mac OS X. Many of our customers are switching to Macs and some are starting to use Linux. Only one has definite plans for Vista this year. -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #277,766 by lincoln 3/8/07 4:25:40 PM Reply	Ditto The owner is extremely pro-MS, so are the contractors that the VP really likes (they wrote our corporate web site), and our all-in-one IT guy is anti-Linux, anti-Oracle DB, anti-open source. So we'll go to Vista but not too soon. Right now our main targets will be upgrading to SQL Server 2005 and Office 2007. At home I have no desire to advance beyond XP Pro which, on the face of it, isn't too bad. But since ASP.Net & VB.Net pay the mortgage, I have to have at least one box at home with MS on it. lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:golf_lover44@yahoo.com\|contact me]
Post #277,710 by andread 3/8/07 9:57:26 AM 3/10/07 4:35:20 PM Reply	Absolutely As soon as corp HQ gets it from MS, I will install it in my office and begin my own evaluation Employees and customers are always buying new machines and most will come with Vista If it seems to be another Windows ME, I won't go far with it but otherwise I will prepare for the eventual rollout Am already running Office 2007, IE7 (have IE7 on my 2 home machines as well) Although I have used Firefox as my browser since before 1.0, I am personally moving over to IE7 since it is faster (XP SP2 updates, etc.) even though I like the look of pages better in Firefox Colleagues are planning their Vista machines, once winter is over I know folks here will go to Vista (most of us are believers in the clean install) I recall reading how MS has tripped up and 95, 98, 98SE, ME (score one for the opposition - but it made billions anyway) and XP will be the failures that will finally put MS in its place Granting that the boy who cried wolf was indeed eaten by a wolf, I don't think Vista will hurt MS in anyway even if it is ME redux At the Office 2007, Vista, Exchange 2007 launch event I attended, the speaker ([link\|http://blogs.technet.com/mjmurphy\|his blog]) suggested that we are about 5 years from the Windows 64 bit desktop being the dominant Windows (Exchange 2007 is 64 bit only) If that conversion to 64 goes faster, Vista could end up a lame duck (I know there is 64 bit Vista) but I don't see that happening (note: I did not get any numbers right in last Tuesday's MegaMillions drawing) A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In] Edited by andread March 10, 2007, 04:35:20 PM EST Expand All History
Post #277,890 by inthane-chan 3/9/07 8:16:21 PM Reply	OT: IE7 faster? Interesting you're experiencing that. I've personally found IE6 to be faster than 7, and FF to be faster than either on my personal machine. OTOH, I've found Office 2007 to be much faster than Office XP, and OpenOffice to be bog slow, even with the preloader running. Odoru aho ni miru aho! Onaji aho nara odoranya son son!
Post #277,718 by bepatient 3/8/07 11:32:50 AM Reply	Home, no. Work, most likely at some point though we just migrated to XP in the past quarter...so it may be a while. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #277,751 by folkert 3/8/07 3:11:25 PM Reply	Even with those... umm lawsuits hanging around on appeal? -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #277,726 by altmann 3/8/07 1:12:03 PM Reply	Maybe I was going to switch to it with a new rig, but I don't think the drivers are there yet. Definitely not for gaming, and that's the only decent idea I can think of for getting a new rig now anyways. My current XP machine is humming along just fine, and I'll continue to fiddle with Vista on my test machine (the sleep mode works well so it's convenient for jumping on the web real quick when my primary PC is off). We have no plans to roll it out at work but I'll have to start testing some of our software to make sure it still runs one of these days. If Vista comes in at work it'll be one PC at a time when we can't get XP as an option. -- Chris Altmann
Post #277,938 by jb4 3/10/07 11:36:05 AM Reply	Not only NO, but HELL NO!!! They'll pry my W2K disk from my cold dead hands! Mind you, I'd just as soon go to Linux, and I'll probably start making the migration soon (First...Dual Boot, then virtualization with W2K.) I'm not wedded to Windows, but I am wedded to some application that (alas) only run on 'Doze. <mumble/> jb4 "It's hard for me, you know, living in this beautiful White House, to give you a firsthand assessment." — George W. Bush, when asked if he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war (Newsweek, 26 Feb 07)
Post #278,357 by lister 3/15/07 1:03:40 PM Reply	Work definitely, personal eventually We'll be getting in new PCs at some point with Vista. I plan on playing with Vista in VMware when I have some time. When I put together a new PC next year for personal use, it'll likely receive Vista. lister

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