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).
--
RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens
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Thanos Rizoulis
Electronic Computing Systems Engineer
Larissa, Greece
FreeBSD/PCBSD user
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