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No Vista in my stocking: Gates' Lump of Coal, Office 2007 is the pretty girl no one asks to dance
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Posted by: ElectraGlide in Rants Topic: Applications
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The Vista operating system is the biggest love/hate relationship I have ever been in. I want it to work, I want to like it, I want it to do what it says it will do, but as a CIO, it would be career suicide to deploy it. The new Office 2007 suite of products look like a good partner for Vista, the new OS is spoiling the party. For some reason, when purchasing my Sony Vaio notebook, I didn't give much thought to the operating system (Vista Business) most likely thinking I could step back to XP Professional. The decision was the first step to a series of disasters, that found me with an upgraded Vista desktop because of the problems with XP compatibility and a brand new set of issues with routers that don't like Vista's auto-tuning of TCP/IP. The last six months of my life have been monopolized debugging and repairing Vista induced problems. I would like to get the President of Sony and Bill Gates in the same room, and after knocking their heads together, lock the door and not let them out until Vista works on my Sony notebook.
Vista's best undocumented feature is where the disk cleanup utility shows 200 more Gigbytes of disk to be freed up on a 160GB disk. I ran it and it cleared the drive- unbootable machine and no data. That's one of the lesser irratations in Vista. Only an idiot would deploy this operating system in it's current state.
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I agree -- Vista should work, it has what we need in terms of increased desktop security. The potential of new features is huge. I recently purchased a new desktop with Ultimate on it -- on purpose.
However, that said, the lack of drivers, the lack of VPN clients that actually work, applications that either don't work or "break" Vista, non-Microsoft software that simply "disappears" after installation, etc., etc., etc., doesn't leave me with any choice. We are on XP, and will stay there for the foreseeable future.
Until Microsoft/the software industry gets on the same page, anyone recommending deployment of Vista in a business environment is asking for trouble, cost, and never ending headaches.
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