All,
Well I got a new laptop with vista. Got it on monday and I have seen 4 blue screens on it. I am getting ready to dual boot it and centos 5 (any day!!!).
I just smile..... Please no flames on why vista. I had to for checking other things out...
Jerry
Like you I had my first check out of Vista, got the Ultimate version, can you say Windows ME version 2... We use XP Pro clients in my business so I needed to see what I might be getting into...
john plemons
Jerry Geis wrote:
All,
Well I got a new laptop with vista. Got it on monday and I have seen 4 blue screens on it. I am getting ready to dual boot it and centos 5 (any day!!!).
I just smile..... Please no flames on why vista. I had to for checking other things out...
Jerry
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O/H John Plemons έγραψε:
Like you I had my first check out of Vista, got the Ultimate version, can you say Windows ME version 2... We use XP Pro clients in my business so I needed to see what I might be getting into...
Jerry Geis wrote:
All,
Well I got a new laptop with vista. Got it on monday and I have seen 4 blue screens on it. I am getting ready to dual boot it and centos 5 (any day!!!).
Four blue screens eh? And I was wondering if they made any cosmetic changes to the BSODs. Any fancy screenshots? :)
Seriously now, most of my customers use Windows XP and they are happy with it, more or less. Vista is the new candy and many people want to taste it. The fact is that I have yet to suggest Vista to anyone since:
a) Specialised accounting software used by most of my customers is still not ready for Vista b) I just had a call from a home user who installed a (non-Vista-Ready) version of Nero 7 and on the next reboot his DVD drive disappeared, whatch out for unsupported drivers as well
All in all it was a hasty release. I have already talked with our sales team and we are making plans on buying more XP licenses for the meantime and the days to come, since Vista is a horsepower-sucker. Add a nice antivirus upon it and you're good to go out and play basketball while your computer (hardly) disinfects itself. Has any of these software houses ever put some thinking about productivity issues? I put two machines side by side last week for a demonstration. One was an old P3-800/128RAM/20GB disk Win98/office 2000. The other was a P4-3G/1GBRAM/80GB SATA WinXPsp2 / Office 2003. Using office on both computers "felt" exactly the same. Productivity is exactly the same. Most of my customers switch to a faster machine after a really bad disk crash or lack of using fancy gadgets (USB devices mostly).
I think I am going to nudge my upstream accounting software providers for a Linux version, no fun in computing anymore with M$ (except for games).
Thanasis Rizoulis wrote:
O/H John Plemons έγραψε:
Like you I had my first check out of Vista, got the Ultimate version, can you say Windows ME version 2... We use XP Pro clients in my business so I needed to see what I might be getting into...
Jerry Geis wrote:
All,
Well I got a new laptop with vista. Got it on monday and I have seen 4 blue screens on it. I am getting ready to dual boot it and centos 5 (any day!!!).
Four blue screens eh? And I was wondering if they made any cosmetic changes to the BSODs. Any fancy screenshots? :)
Seriously now, most of my customers use Windows XP and they are happy with it, more or less. Vista is the new candy and many people want to taste it. The fact is that I have yet to suggest Vista to anyone since:
a) Specialised accounting software used by most of my customers is still not ready for Vista b) I just had a call from a home user who installed a (non-Vista-Ready) version of Nero 7 and on the next reboot his DVD drive disappeared, whatch out for unsupported drivers as well
All in all it was a hasty release. I have already talked with our sales team and we are making plans on buying more XP licenses for the meantime and the days to come, since Vista is a horsepower-sucker. Add a nice antivirus upon it and you're good to go out and play basketball while your computer (hardly) disinfects itself. Has any of these software houses ever put some thinking about productivity issues? I put two machines side by side last week for a demonstration. One was an old P3-800/128RAM/20GB disk Win98/office 2000. The other was a P4-3G/1GBRAM/80GB SATA WinXPsp2 / Office 2003. Using office on both computers "felt" exactly the same. Productivity is exactly the same. Most of my customers switch to a faster machine after a really bad disk crash or lack of using fancy gadgets (USB devices mostly).
I think I am going to nudge my upstream accounting software providers for a Linux version, no fun in computing anymore with M$ (except for games).
Can you imagine the BOSD in 3-D?? Hehehe
--On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:43 AM -0400 Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Well I got a new laptop with vista. Got it on monday and I have seen 4 blue screens on it. I am getting ready to dual boot it and centos 5 (any day!!!).
At the risk of mentioning a rival distro, here's an amusing prank involving Vista and Ubuntu:
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Jean Figarella -
Jerry Geis -
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Kenneth Porter -
Thanasis Rizoulis