http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/list/59.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/39.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/39.page GMT http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/217.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/217.page GMT *sigh*

May the source be with you...
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We have found that the changes to the start menu tend to have the largest impact on the OS usability. It integrates the Windows desktop search into the start menu and in my opinion increases the speed at which programs, network shares or email messages can be found. Other factors which would interest me in when looking at Vista for the business are the improved scheduled tasks, task manager, event viewer and the broader range of group policy.

I don't really think Vista is the end all of the OS world, but since SP1 I think Vista is a worthwhile product. When XP was released, a lot of the same negative feedback was present. SP1 and SP2 made huge strides with the OS, and I think SP1 has made the same type of step for Vista. I've used Vista for over a year now without having to use XP for any compatibility, and would not go back to XP.

I would be interested in hearing specific issues that people have faced with Vista that were not an issue in XP.]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/325.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/325.page GMT http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/328.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/328.page GMT *sigh*

May the source be with you...
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For the "worried" ones out there .....I would like to re-assure you that this is not the case :lol:
We will of course continue to support multiplatforms :-)

The idea behind this Poll was to create some interaction and discussion ...... and I see it did..... :roll:


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The function, speed, graphics are wonderful. Turn off services that are not used, Something I always did in XP too, and the damned thing runs sweetly. As for the start menu, that can be changed to the old 2000 look. Turn off themes and save a bunch of RAM.

For Xp only applications I installed VM with two HDD so I can have three computers running on teh same box. Luckily I have the RAM to do it.

Get one Vista PC, customize it then test the crap out of it. ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/442.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/442.page GMT
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Too true - I don't understand why people have done this, maybe someone who has, can explain.

I have a colleague running the same laptop (Dell Lat D820) with Vista and he's had all sorts of issues. On the other hand, mine isn't quite as bad.

To cut a long story short, what's the point of changing unless it's going to get you massive benefit (and personally I don't see Vista does).]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1673.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1673.page GMT 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?]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1709.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1709.page GMT 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?[/quote]

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) ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1733.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1733.page GMT 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?[/quote]

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) [/quote]

As long as you have your licenses, even one XP CD will do (but if you only have one, start making copies )]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1736.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1736.page GMT 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?[/quote]

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) [/quote]

As long as you have your licenses, even one XP CD will do (but if you only have one, start making copies )[/quote]

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) ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1737.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1737.page GMT
Half of our applications do not work with Vista, not to mention that it seems horribly slow

]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1890.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1890.page GMT 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 ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1891.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/1891.page GMT
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. ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/2205.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/2205.page GMT
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!!!! ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/2219.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/2219.page GMT
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.]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/2946.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/2946.page GMT
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. ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/3002.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/3002.page GMT http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/3597.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/3597.page GMT

Congratulations, mate. You are officially the first person I've run into who's roller this out within the workplace.

[quote=Harold.Ballinger]If forced to move off of XP, I would rather migrate to Linux desktops than have to migrate to Vista.[/quote]
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. ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/3599.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/3599.page GMT
I wouldn't be too surprised. You familiar with the term "banana products" ?
*wicked wicked smile*

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Thanks!]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/5941.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/5941.page GMT
Thanks![/quote]

Hello AtomicDon,

Our development team is currently working on adjusting the SysAid agent for Windows 2008 and windows 7.
As soon as those changes will be released, we will post it in the community.

Best regards
Haim]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/5945.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/5945.page GMT
on another note like most of you im happy to see and use windows 7 (got to use the beta version ). yes it installed fast and it seemed to work seemlessly with the older computer i had installed it on. my concern is, is that once it is officially released will it still be as quick? or will they be adding a tonne more to it which on release date will see it as quick as its vista counterpart. at the moment 7 looks a feels good but ill hold out until its been fully released to pass judgement and expect it to be the hero everyone is hoping for. they are still completing it so my concern is whats left to add, and what effect it will have to the overall running of the system. how do we know Microsoft didnt just give us a quick version to start the whispers so that when it does release it will sell really good. ]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/7418.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/7418.page GMT http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/7708.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/7708.page GMT
I was recently pointed at TinyVista and it's sibling TinyXP as an interesting exercise in what can be done with the OS's. Ok, before anyone says anything - yes, they technically violate the licensing agreements and I wouldn't have one on my work network for lover nor money! However, I believe they only violate said agreement on the basis of the licence key - which I promptly removed and used our own ones so I reckon it's all good. The good point is that a full XP install is about 2Gb and the full Vista install is only 3Gb!! How they've cut it all down I don't know but would love to find out. The XP VM machine I'm running is more than happy with 256Mb of RAM and the Vista one is running only 500Mb off the top of my head. Both fully functional and happy as can be.

TinyVista has been the only Vista install I've even vaguely liked enough to use for personal use rather than being forced into it.

Windows 7 ..... now there's something that's going to proving interesting. From the beta I've tried it seems much better than the existing Vista releases and I'm hoping it'll only improve as the refinements progress. I'm also very interested to see what spec it will run on as I think MS might have learnt its lesson with the huge Vista footprint .... ok, I hope so at least.

The more I look at different operating systesm, the more I consider them just applications and you need to pick the right one for the job.]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/7907.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/7907.page GMT
However I am playing with the Window 7 RCs and it does show promise.]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/10509.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/10509.page GMT
In the past even when it is preloaded you can always change them to whatever you want... now the drivers seems to be designed in such away that any other os (even from the same os vendor) will be "crippled" in one way or another...

Universally bollocks..]]> http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/10579.page http://www.ilient.com/Sysforums/posts/preList/33/10579.page GMT