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rbstern wrote:
On Feb 9, 10:39 am, Harry Krause wrote:
Got my new computer finished up this morning, though still waiting
delivery of storage drive. VISTA works fine. Initial first-time
startup
takes a long time.
Got a "computer emergency" call from my sister last weekend. Brand
new HP something-or-other desktop with Vista. IE 7 quit working
altogether, with no meaningful error message, at some point during
her
migration from the old PC. The HP support drones wanted her to start
from scratch with a reinstall of the factory CDs. She wouldn't have
any of that, since she had already invested many hours installing
apps
and transferring files from the old PC.

Got her back on the 'net running Firefox. she did the research
legwork
and discovered that a lot of others are having similar problems upon
installing their Canon printer driver.

If an operating system can't protect core applications from a poorly
behaved printer driver, it ain't much of an operating system.

Think I'll wait a service pack or two.

Interested to hear how Vista does for you over the coming weeks as
you
do real work with it.

It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP
today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer
currently using Windows XP.
Clean install?
I know next to nothing about Vista and the new
computer has XP Pro installed, but with the upgrade
deal thing - Vista Business for free, etc.

I called my brother who does know a lot about it and
he's been running Vista on a standalone computer at
his IT shop - says at this point, MS is using the
installed customer base as a test bed - Vista is no
where near ready. Expect huge service packs in the
near future.

I think I'll wait for a while.

Big companies usually run new stuff like this on test machines that don't
involve critical operations. The techs are some of the best contributors
to various online forums. Most other information is pure myth, including
mine, yours and Harry's. Not enough stats to say anything meaningful yet.

No offense Doug, but I'll take the word of a experienced,
cross platform IT/IS manager who is responsible for keeping
three major medical centers running for thirty years.

If he says it's has backwards compatibility problems and
serious device flaws - he's right.

I guess he fits the category I was talking about. Admittedly, there are lots
of people in smaller shops who do the same thing.