Posted on 11/29/2006 6:02:45 PM PST by CAWats
More than five years after Microsoft (MSFT) released its last major PC operating system, the company on Thursday is finally rolling out a new version, Windows Vista, for corporate customers.
The software giant is counting on new versions of its two cash cows — Windows and the Office productivity software suite — to boost sales and profit. On Thursday, Microsoft will also release to corporate users Office 2007, an upgrade to its popular suite that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
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"It's going to take most companies 12 to 18 months of testing and preparation before they begin their rollouts."
Silly Gartner analyst. The place where I work is still testing XP, and most of us are still on Win2000.
Wait 6 months for SP 1 to correct all the errors found in this release.
lol
Used the Beta version of Windows Vista for about a month before I removed it due to power issues.
Office 2007 +
Windows Vista -
Not a great deal of difference except for that worthless, annoying firewall and the UI. XP is a bit of a resource hog, but nothing compared to Vista.
In the defense of Microsoft he new IE 7 has some very nice features. Like the one that lets you uninstall it.
I won't be migrating to Vista, thanks to DRM.
I suggest my Fortune-500 employer will also decline Vista, although for other reasons. What's the net business value?
We are just now rolling out Office 2003.... it will take 2 years to complete.
They still haven't fixed XP and they think they can produce another OS. Let's not talk about the garbage IE7 is. I have a two-month old multi-media desktop and it has issues with XP. HP and Microsoft both "could care less." I've spent hours on the telephone talking to idiots at HP and Microsoft. I know, what else is new.
A colleague in Charlottesville had Vista running on a test bed Intel system a few months ago with HT, several gigs of RAM, a high end ATI PCIe graphics card...and Vista was horrendously slow (even w/nothing running).
Yeah, why MS keeps making significant changes to the user interface with each successive iteration of Windows is beyond me.
I don't have any problems with XP so I'm keeping it.
>I don't have any problems with XP so I'm keeping it.
Same here.
I had Windows 2000 on a couple of machines, but I think XP is much better.
It's simple enough to turn off the firewall and use something else.
I've installed IE7 on my desktop, which I'm using now, and it's working just fine.
No doubt Windows Vista will be a resource hog, but there's no use standing in the way of progress. Like it or not, computers and operating systems just keep changing.
How is it better?
We are also. Shouldn't take 2 years though, we are shooting for 12 months tops, we probably aren't as big as your company.
" XP is a bit of a resource hog, but nothing compared to Vista."
After upgrading the OS on two previous computers, I've learned my lesson. Each new version of Windows overwhelmed the older computers & bogged everything down (really, really bogged down). I'll stick with XP, until I upgrade the whole system (not necessarily to a Windows OS).
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