Re: Anyone using Vista?

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:13:38 -0500, SkippyPB
<swiegand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:15:23 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am one of the millions who is hoping to jump Vista and go to Windows 7,
despite MS warning against this.

XP Pro serves me well, and, as I have remarked here before, it is the FIRST
OS for a PC which I have no complaints about. Running it on a 4GB dual core
laptop it has NEVER BSODed or hung or done anything unpleasant, and I have a
fair number of devices and media (including IIS which I use as a test web
server) which it is required to drive. (I am running the Media Centre
version)

The Beta pre-release of Windows 7 was released for download a few weeks ago
and I am putting this onto a virtual machine (Sun's VBox), just to get a
"feel" for it. I haven't done so yet as I have too much going on, but I'll
post my impressions here when I get time.

Meantime, I note the following...

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=microsoft-vista-voted-the-tech-worl-2009-02-26

I was wondering if anyone who actually HAS Vista would want to comment. I
think there have been copious comments from people who DON'T have it (or
had early releases of it) and was wonderng what people who have acquired it
recently think about it.

Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


I wouldn't touch Vista. Hell I've got 4 boxes in my house, 3 of them
on XP Pro and 1 on Win98. I acutally like the Win98 box the best but
really have few complaints about XP Pro. From what little I've seen
of either Vista or Win 7, I see no reason or advantage to upgrading.
If they are like most MS operating systems, you'll need a larger hard
drive and more and faster memory to make them work right. No thanks.

Virtually all operating systems grow over time as bells and whistles
are added. OO takes resources. The paranoia over possibly corrupted
parameter lists and boundary conditions in MVS / OS390 / z/OS takes
resources. Good security checking takes resources. In any major
operating system, take a look at the number of tasks running and try
to determine what they are doing for you.

While some complain about Microsoft, I suspect most are unaware of the
amount of logging being done. Thus someone truly interested in
keeping a system in good running condition and eliminating problems
has tools that someone who is just using it for personal reasons like
myself will just ignore. This logging takes resources.

Regards,
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