| Poll |
| Did you upgrade your organization to Vista yet ? |
| Yes |
 
|
2% |
[ 1 ] |
| No |
|
76% |
[ 39 ] |
| Only the IT department |
|
22% |
[ 11 ] |
| Total Votes : 51 |
|
| Author |
Message |
![[Post New]](/Sysforums/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif) 15/07/2008 12:25:15
|
MBeckett
Super SysAider
Joined: 07/07/2008 09:42:34
Messages: 68
Location: England, UK
Offline
|
Haim wrote:
MBeckett wrote:
Tim Sutton wrote:I banned it initially as remote admins were buying new PC's with it on. I wasn't impressed to say the least!  lol
We're now getting to the point where our industry specific software is reporting as Vista "capable" or whatever the word is so we'll be starting our review process soon.
On that side of things, we're looking at getting a TechNet subscription for all the testing goodies. Anyone have anything bad to say about them?
Well we are a MS partner and we have subscription to the Microsoft Action Pack which was pretty useful until they dropped the XP CD's.
Only Vista CD's are now available and they won't even replace your old XP CD (SO DON'T LOSE IT).
As for your Vista migration, good luck with that and keep us updated (Sysaid problems only please) 
As long as you have your licenses, even one XP CD will do (but if you only have one, start making copies )
I was expecting 'them' to lose the CD and the wallet with it (this wallet contains the CD key - best to make a copy of this too) 
|
"REEEEBOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" |
|
|
18/07/2008 19:41:46
|
HCNW
SysAider
Joined: 26/06/2008 20:25:22
Messages: 13
Offline
|
Our company will NOT deploy Vista anytime soon if even ever. We are holding out until early next year, hoping to leapfrog Vista and go with Windows 7. I've heard by February next year they should be releasing this.
Half of our applications do not work with Vista, not to mention that it seems horribly slow 
|
-------------------------------------
Julia - HCNW
------------------------------------- |
|
|
19/07/2008 05:27:40
|
René Rijk
Elite SysAider
Joined: 15/06/2008 16:28:13
Messages: 214
Location: Netherlands
Offline
|
We won't upgrade to Vista. Vista is the same mistake as Windows ME was if you ask me.
I hope windows 7 is more like XP as it is now.
We still can deliver computers with XP to our clients. Lets hope we can do this untill there is a better os than Vista.
Kind regards,
René
|
Take a look at my 3D creations and here is a little animation I made |
|
|
30/07/2008 22:58:58
|
Harold.Ballinger
Super SysAider
Joined: 16/06/2008 09:07:47
Messages: 88
Offline
|
If forced to move off of XP, I would rather migrate to Linux desktops than have to migrate to Vista.
We still run XP and have no immediate plans to migrate to Vista. We have a Vista machine in our Test/Development network and have had problems with driver issues, software compatibility and low performance compared to XP.
Something that I have found interesting is that at most Industry conferences (VMware Conferences, Microsoft Server 2008 rollout, etc.) many of the speakers have asked the audience if any of them have implemented Vista, and at every conference (including the Microsoft rollout), only a few people had implemented Vista, and of those it was in very limited use.
I agree with the assessment that its a dog like ME was and I'm just surprised at how seriously it has made me consider switching to non-MS desktops for the first time. If it weren't for a few critical applications, I probably would have already made the move to non-MS --- and I'm no Linux or OpenSource fanboy either.
|
|
|
31/07/2008 04:23:19
|
MBeckett
Super SysAider
Joined: 07/07/2008 09:42:34
Messages: 68
Location: England, UK
Offline
|
I've noticed still to this date that no one has opted to roll out Vista to an end user level!!!
Could you imagine the problems out there in no man's land? I think it's hard enough for some to use office, let alone understand XP or even Vista for that matter!
Change is a hard thing to take in for end users, I would have suggested pen and paper but that would count me out of the job!!!! 
|
"REEEEBOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" |
|
|
25/08/2008 17:25:03
|
RobG
SysAider
Joined: 24/06/2008 00:02:54
Messages: 4
Offline
|
We're rolling out Vista only on an as-needed basis. Basically, we stopped using downgrade rights on new hardware about a year ago after running a live-test environment with 1 poor lab rat per department. Some software we just run as administrator, but most of our stuff works fine with Vista. So far, we're about 40% Vista and about 60% XP. Group Policies to control UAC behavior fix about 90% of the Vista complaints, and another 9% of Vista complaints are actually Office 2007 complaints. 1% are the developers who still want to change code directly in %systemroot%, don't like having to edit their hosts file in their user profile folders and copy it back to their etc folder, and hate having to use ctrl+shift+enter to open a cmd prompt as admin.
People holding out for some dramatic change with Windows 7 are going to be disappointed, since it's going to be the same underlying system, probably with a few cosmetic changes so win 7 people will have a better OOBE with UAC without having to create group policies to control it.
|
|
|
27/08/2008 11:29:59
|
MBeckett
Super SysAider
Joined: 07/07/2008 09:42:34
Messages: 68
Location: England, UK
Offline
|
To be honest, the amount of trouble that I've seen friends and ex-colleagues come across with Vista truely puts me off. It seems to run like a dog most of the time and apart from looking nicer, it seems to be more annoying.
You may be lucky to have no real issues but then in my view I've seen more problems with Vista than without.
I'll stick with XP for as long as we can, so far it's been the best for business needs.
Windows 7 will have to go through thorough testing too, nothing's getting away with it lightly in my eyes.
|
"REEEEBOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" |
|
|
26/09/2008 08:44:57
|
Cataclysm13
SysAider
Joined: 25/09/2008 10:18:57
Messages: 7
Offline
|
I have deployed vista on 98% of the computers and our company has yet to encounter any serious issues (knock on wood).
|
|
|
26/09/2008 11:17:57
|
Tim Sutton
SysAider
Joined: 15/07/2008 09:13:12
Messages: 18
Offline
|
Cataclysm13 wrote:I have deployed vista on 98% of the computers and our company has yet to encounter any serious issues (knock on wood).
Congratulations, mate. You are officially the first person I've run into who's roller this out within the workplace.
Harold.Ballinger wrote:If forced to move off of XP, I would rather migrate to Linux desktops than have to migrate to Vista.
I felt pretty much the same. I recently consolidated my home machines into one laptop and was faced with Vista or something else. I went for a Mac Book and have loved it! I've got VMWare running some windows machines on it and can honestly say that I don't intend to but another Windows based laptop for at home again.
|
|
|
28/09/2008 22:25:01
|
Obelix
SysAid Wiz
Joined: 12/06/2008 07:14:19
Messages: 325
Online
|
Tim Sutton wrote: Congratulations, mate. You are officially the first person I've run into who's roller this out within the workplace.
I wouldn't be too surprised. You familiar with the term "banana products" ?
*wicked wicked smile*
|
That is not a bug, it's a feature... |
|
|
![[Up]](/Sysforums/templates/default/images/icon_up.gif){kind=icon}
![[WWW]](/Sysforums/templates/default/images/icon_www.gif){kind=icon}
