Posted on 04/13/2009 7:00:03 PM PDT by dayglored
What else is installed on the computer besides Smoothtext? It looks like you have a new shell installed too.
No, the worst of all was Windows ME, Windows 95, Windows 3.0 and DOS 4.0
Well, yes, I did get burned by ME as well.
I made the mistake of going with the Vista 64-bit too early for my home computer. Many of the virus/firewall software makers wouldn’t support it yet, and certain applications couldn’t run on it period. Games were extremely hit and miss.
It finally became more stable after SP1 and more vendors built versions to support Vista64. But for about the first 6 months, I was really regreting not just going with the 32 bit version. Lesson learned.
Windows ME was a steaming pile. I think it was their worst OS ever, given how far the company had come by then. What a total pile of garbage.
What qualifies as a needed functionality?
If I were still in IT, and I want to get back into the game, I'd wait as well given the criteria for switching to the new OS. I'd also work up a plan (never hurts to keep options open) to switch desktop to Linux. If the vast majority of users only need the basics, no, special windows only applications, why not. You're already using a *nix infrastructure.
Back when XP came out, the company I was working at, didn't switch from W2K for a couple of years. And anymore, considering XP can handle the multi-cores, is available in x86_64 bit versions, why change to W7? Just because M$ wants to maintain "their" revenue stream?
Not a valid upgrade reason IMHO.
I rebuilt my work laptop with a BETA copy of windows 7 a couple weeks ago and I LOVE IT!!! I think it is faster that the XP os it replaced. Wireless config, our work VLAN, all my software - no problems.
The only problem I’ve had is IE 8 not loading some websites properly.
And it does takes up a rather large chuck of my hard drive.....
If you’re talking about the taskbar image, no, it’s plain vanilla Win2k, with SmoothText’s skinning engine on.
I hope you have a lot of extra processing power for the thin-client model. If you have a Gainstown based system, please do list the the specs. (Sysadmin porn)
Standardize fast or use virtual clients.
I’m a network admin where I work, and we haven’t even deployed Vista in production on any machine. I’m sure we won’t be doing ‘Windows 7’ either, unless our software vendors require it.
I think Microsoft is pretty much dead in the water, just waiting to be replaced.
Late 1994, the director of a project I was working on came to me and told me to prepare a presentation on SDLC and general maintenance tips. You know, RAS, reliability, availability, and serviceability.
So I took a couple days and tossed together some graphics and flow charts and statements about procedures, etc, then Wed morning came, and two suits walked in.
I knew their names, that was it.
They listened, and actually asked good questions. All in all I could tell they were deeply impressed.
But I don’t think much of it got to where it was supposed to get to, because they were from Redmond, and the next year, WIN95 came out, with none of the protections and failsafes I had described built in.
It wasn’t till what? Win/ME or WIN98 that anything close to System Restore came out?
I still see ads on Dice for mainframe sysprogs needed at MS.
I've got a seismic interpretation program that will use as much memory as you can throw at it. A 32-bit operating system can only use a maximum of 4 GB. Most of the people I know running 64-bit Windows software are running the 64-bit version of XP.
The laptop which I am using right now won't run Office 2007 even after a Microsoft technician in India spent a few hours remotely deleting files and making changes to the registry. Office worked just long enough for the "quality control" people at Microsoft to call and confirm that Office 2007 was working. The first time the computer went into hibernation after they called, Office stopped working.
Unfortunately, because it is an HP computer, my only option would be to run an image restore of the original configuration rather than do a real reinstall of the operating system. After running a restoration, I would then have to delete the 30-day trial version of Office 2007 that prevented the upgrade version of Office 2007 from installing correctly. I would gladly install the Windows7 beta on this machine right now, but Microsoft no longer has it available for download. They would however, let me have an install code if I were to have an installation disk.
Strange. I've seen nothing but XP on desktops. Why would an accountant, or anybody else, have a server OS on their desktop?
Big businesses rarely upgrade the first year a new OS is out. I would like to know if even Microsoft will deploy it in the critical areas?
Stop putting "/" in your numbers!
Then that Reviewing toolbar that attaches itself like a rabid dog to files. I have killed it and killed and it reappears.
Never in years of using Excel has that happened to me. Are you working on spreadsheets created by others?
Maybe your personal file got over written inadvertantly? Make a new clean one and save it.
My biggest problem with Vista has been on the GF's puter. Old system (W2K) dies, but HD's were good, she got a new system (Vista Home Premium) and tech support (me) was supposed to port everything over. Windows has a "Windows Easy Transfer" (WET) that is geared towards transferring from a working system to a new one. But they only thought so far as to "assume" that the old system was fully intact, not just a hard drive on the same machine. So manual transfer, with different filesystem sructures was a PITA.
Oh well, I've had worse; NULL modem cable between machines and Kermit transfers.
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