I was a tester for vista from the alpha stage. I know I've said this before,
but once all the testing was done, all of my machines went back to xp. Most
every tester agreed that vista wasn't ready for release, but the bean
counters at MS apparently said otherwise.

Clean install (2 machines) or upgrade (3 machines), it didn't matter...
vista was junk in my book, and many other's. I did like the aero look, and
windows mail, but that was about it. They asked me to test for sp1 and I
declined. Actually, I never declined, I just never participated.

--Mike


"JG2U" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:00:00 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:17:54 -0400, HK wrote:


His statement? Vista is a joke. Virtually no one is using it in the
business world, and no one is planning to migrate. If you have a
certain type of site license, you can continue to downgrade your new
machines to XP Pro even after the official "end-of-life", and that's
what all his client companies are doing.


Uh-huh.

You know, Harry, he may be right. Business has always been slower
picking up on a new OS. Migration and training costs sometimes keep them
with an older OS until there is a reason to upgrade, either needed
hardware replacement, or something in the newer software is needed. I
know you like Vista, and, frankly, I've never used it, but sell me. What
am I missing out on by not using Vista? What does it do, that couldn't
be done with XP?

It does require you to buy all new hardware, and twice as much memory,
as was required with XP.

It does require you to buy new applications that play well with Vista.

It does allow you to run all this slower, giving you more time to,
umm, not compute.

And last but not least, it does give you free MS support. Yes, that's
right! If you're running SP1 for Vista, MS is extending free support.
Why? It's not because they are generous and it's trouble-free, ya
know?

But in the end, I have no dog in this hunt. I'm typing this on a 3
month old laptop that's running Vista. I wouldn't run it on anything
else I have... I know better. I'll probably wipe this hard drive and
load a licensed copy of XP Pro I have. My 4 year old, slower
processor speed, half-as-much memory machine running XP runs circles
around this new machine running Vista. I can't wait to see what this
new machine can do with XP Pro.

As a side note, not one of our dozen software engineers at work are
running, or plan to run, Vista at work. We, as a company, are *not*
moving to Vista. We've only had a couple of enquiries from a couple
hundred customers about our products supporting Vista.

Right now, Vista is not even a blip on the radar in the real business
world. Retired guys farting around at home? Have fun beta testing!