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