I am a Mac person for the most part, but professionally I use Windows and Unix. My brother runs his own PC support company, and he really REALLY dislikes Vista. I have been working with him one night a week to learn more about PC’s, and haven’t worked with it much yet myself.
At work, our hospital has had to disappoint some employees who purchased new laptops or desktops for home use, only to find they had to buy a copy of Windows XP if they wanted to connect to work via Cisco VPN, since the VIsta version had not been released and validated Enterprise-wide.
I have no working opinion about Vista yet, but only know what I have heard from others.
OTOH...I did enjoy slapping together the Photoshop Windows graphic...we can all joke about it. I get a decent amount of ribbing about being a Mac guy, but my organization does tolerate them and will help when it can. They usually just have them call me...:)
I've gone back and forth between a dozen major OSes over the years (35 of 'em... years that is)
> My brother runs his own PC support company, and he really REALLY dislikes Vista. I have been working with him one night a week to learn more about PC’s, and haven’t worked with it much yet myself.
When I got around to dealing with it myself earlier this year, I was reminded of the old John Kennedy quote, "When we got into office, what shocked us was that things really were as bad as we'd been saying they were!"
> At work, our hospital has had to disappoint some employees who purchased new laptops or desktops for home use, only to find they had to buy a copy of Windows XP if they wanted to connect to work via Cisco VPN, since the VIsta version had not been released and validated Enterprise-wide.
Yep, same here. Cisco VPNs and all...
> I have no working opinion about Vista yet, but only know what I have heard from others.
Some folks say they like it. I say, it's eye candy at a huge cost in performance and usability.
> OTOH...I did enjoy slapping together the Photoshop Windows graphic...we can all joke about it.
It's GREAT!
> I get a decent amount of ribbing about being a Mac guy, but my organization does tolerate them and will help when it can. They usually just have them call me...:)
Yeah, we're almost entirely a Windows and Unix shop, but there are a couple of us using Macs as working machines and more on the way. Me, I'm neutral -- I use whatever I find does the job best, and they all have their pluses and minuses.