Could Vista get skipped? | The Coffeehouse

typemismatch

ok so I know nobody can really answer this, just wondering. With yet another OS looming a couple years away is the focus from MS going to be on that and hope the hang in until it comes out and then dump Vista ... like Windows ME ...? I don't like these "big" OS releases and would prefer just incremental updates .. anyway

the company I work for has cancelled our Vista/Office07 rollout to some 200 developers since the initial batch had so many problems. Vista on its own was so so but add office 2007 and we just had the machines being returned all the time ... we gave it until SP1 but at some point you have to give in.

any thoughts on if there'd be an upgrade path to Windows 7?

ta

jamie

we can only hope

joem83
Heading toward the future. IE8, Vista, Office12, Zune 2.0

Helped upgrade about 20-30 business with about 150 - 200 computers to Vista and Office 2007. Had no trouble at all, they were very happy with their new OS and Office.

jamie

joem83 wrote:
Helped upgrade about 20-30 business with about 150 - 200 computers to Vista and Office 2007. Had no trouble at all, they were very happy with their new OS and Office.

"it starts like that...at the beginning it's all ooohhh, ahhh .... then there's screaming and running"

chaos

j0217995

I'm seeing more and more companies getting ready to move to Vista. I've had no problems with Vista and dislike working in an XP environment. Seems so old and I find myself missing the whole search in the start menu.
In fact that is one of the problems with the search in KDE4's new Application Launcher, their search only searchs things found under Applications, and prompts to run a web search.

I love the whole CTRL+ESC to launch the start menu, then start typing what I'm looking for and bam get it. I use the mouse less, and have remove all clutter from my desktop (all shortcuts) as I don't use them anymore. Rock on Vista.

jamie

* ive had better days...

DigitalDud

The computer center here at uni moved hundreds of public lab machines to Vista running over 80 applications with minor issues and we suck.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

jamie wrote:
* ive had better days...

Yes.

jamie

PaoloM wrote:

jamie wrote: * ive had better days...

Yes.

c'mon.. goldblum? he's funny no matter where you stick him Wink

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DigitalDud wrote:
The computer center here at uni moved hundreds of public lab machines to Vista running over 80 applications with minor issues and we suck.

Our computer center here (another uni) is planning to move over to Vista over the summer. They're not going to be moving the existing lab machines, though; they're planning to replace all the public lab machines (which are all really slow and out of date).

stevo_
Human after all

jamie wrote:

PaoloM wrote:

jamie wrote: * ive had better days...

Yes.

c'mon.. goldblum? he's funny no matter where you stick him

Sadly, you aint Tongue Out

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

Our intere company (800+) rolled out Vista a couple of months ago. Had some major issues, wich nearly all got resolved with deinstalling all the IBM trash software. Still having problems when I wake my laptop up from hybernate.

Why is it that IBM thinks it can do a better job in powermanagement, security, wireless management, performance management and hardware protection then the standard Vista features? It's really screwing up my system. Booting up took me nearly 5 minutes. With all the crap deinstalled it boots up within a minute.

alexmac

No I dont think it will happen. I know alot of organisations that are planning to roll it out. Its got its problems and im not its biggest fan but its no windows ME