Windows Vista

[TellicoTurning]

You guys must all be younger than me... the only "computer" we had in my high school was a slide rule and an abaccas. We even had to write all our English papers with a fountain pen.. no ball points allowed.

 

[baldysm]

Originally posted by mdburn_em
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It was about a year ago that I was able to talk them into purchasing 10 used computers (1.8 GHz P4's...screamin') I was able to get rid of the 133's and 166's that were still in use.
Vista? whew. I'm a decade from having machines that will run Vista.
Sigh...

Ha, I got you beat. I used to work for a local health insurance company that was using Digital LAT and a VMS server until 1999. (Y2k issues). They were the LAST company in the world to be using that version of software for thier records. Before I left, I got them upgraded to async terminals on TCP/IP, thier current level of technology.

 

[Papabear]

There's no way I'll DOWNGRADE to vista without a lot of kicking and screaming. I use WinXP and Ubuntu Linux and can do anything I really need already. Already with IE7 I have users that have problems with basic website functions because of microsoft's "security" measures. I'm not about to let them have control over my machines. My servers all run Linux and do NOT have frontpage hooks. For me getting totally away from M$ is almost a possibility. That day is coming.

 

[Scottydont]

Hi Scott. Long time no speak. There is not anything that is compelling enough about Vista to make me upgrade right now. I am taking a wait and see attitude to see what kind of issues peple run into. I built a PC with a AMD Dual core 64 bit and running two 7800GT video cards in SLI. It is a SWEEEET machine and I want it to stay that way. Users are likely to run into issues with Vista with unsigned drivers not being able to be loaded into the Kernel during bootup. I read a recent artile recommending that if you have a 64bit machine, they recommend upgrading to the 32 bit version to minimize problems as there are very few programs supporting 64 bit yet.

Just in case anyone wants to read it here is the link.

http://361degrees.wordpress.com/2006/06/13/windows-vistato-install-64-bit-or-32-bit-version-x64-vs-x86/

 

[RobWalters]

(I can't believe nobody mentioned Microsoft Bob! And yes, I know it was just a different interface to Win 3.1.)

I'm sticking with XP/SuSE Linux until my PC dies, for multiple reasons. When it finally does come time to consider a new box, I'm seriously pondering just selling out to Apple. At least their commercials are funny. []

 

[Ron in Drums PA]

Originally posted by RobWalters
<br />I'm seriously pondering just selling out to Apple. At least their commercials are funny. []

If you think they are funny watch these
http://www.youtube.com/v/hrpS9m2VF1c
http://www.youtube.com/v/Jg1-ywndVNc
http://www.youtube.com/v/LZtbshemzq8
http://www.youtube.com/v/1UNSfm4Of80

 

[gerryr]

I still miss Windows 1.0. At least then when I found a bug, I could just switch to DOS and run programs anyway. I just a new machine in November, I think, after a system board failure. It runs XP Media Edition and is Vista "ready". We also got a coupon to get Vista free after release, but I don't know which version. I used to be real early on the curve with Windows, but with each version there are more and more bugs early on, so now I'm a late adopter. I won't upgrade before they release SP1 and maybe not even then.

 

[Bozz]

No. As an IT Administrator, I prefer to let Microsoft work out the problems of newly released software on the masses for a minimum of one year before I install their software on my servers. Or my own home PC for that matter. Usually, one year after the masses have tried their products they've broken it enough times for Microsoft to fix all the issues that should have been fixed prior to release. Really, most software vendors operate this way. It has become standard business practice. Think of Microsoft and software vendors like them as using their customers as free resources of lab-rat, beta-testers and charging them for the privilege. That is why Bill Gates and Microsoft are the wealthiest entities in the world.

 

[Ron in Drums PA]

Here is a good news item

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/14/D8N9NRF80.html

security researchers noted a problem with Vista's improved speech-recognition system, which lets people speak commands to the computer. It turns out that sounds played over the PC's speakers _ on a malicious Web site configured for this very purpose, for example _ can trigger Vista's speech-recognition engine and execute commands on a victim's computer.