Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 08:39 UTC
Microsoft is hard at work trying to battle the public and businesses' perception about Windows Vista. They already published a whitepaper named "Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista", detailing some of what they believe are misunderstandings. Now, they also published a document wit five reasons to deploy Windows Vista - and why you shouldn't wait for Windows 7.
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2006-09-15
God there are a lot of haters here.
Vista ain't perfect but it sure isn't the dismal mess of an OS that seems to be the main thread on this forum. Only thing that shits me about Vista is that OEM's are pumping it out without SP1 so when I setup systems for clients I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting to get that happening. More money but very annoying for me.
As for backwards compatability, sure some older Adobe products mightn't work on Vista but all their current stuff does. Them aside, I have not had an issue on client systems that couldn't be fixed with the compatability settings provided with Vista and this includes x64 which I reccommend and programs including Point of Sales Systems and MYOB Version 7.
To the tech guy seeing increasing problems with his clients Vista boxes - learn to set it up correctly and keep crapware (security suits) off Vista. You don't need them just a good antivirus which really isn't needed as well if Vista is properly setup but protects other computers in a mixed network. When your clients machines are setup and running then take a Restore Point Snapshot so that if things do go haywire and need to be fixed you have a great starting point.
Vista System restore is a great tool for trialing software and drivers and having a decent fall back is the system goes belly up. My only issue with Vista was having decent Video drivers and that took Nvidia almost a year to deal with (that and my XFX card having a crap bios which I changed). Since that, my home workstation for Graphic Design and Audio ahs benn running SOLID.
For alternatives, start supporting OO. Open Office Beta 3 is looking great and when it comes out in September, start pushing that as an alternative to Office 2007 less the $500 MS tax. Once you get people moving their office suite to something that is cross platform, you can then down the track move their underlying OS.
Personally I'm looking forward to Haiku but I'm not letting go of Vista soon as there are apps that I need on it for my work and my only real alternative at this stage is OS-X and I'm not substituting one corp greed tax for another even though I don't mind the OS.