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1. BobWells

   
   Posted on: June 05, 2008 at 6:12PM  

   Make me more productive by 42%?

   Yeah, right. And the earth is still flat too.

   <rolleyes>
2. hi_its_ashu

   
   Posted on: June 06, 2008 at 4:20AM  

   Windows vista is not for advanced users!!! Its for home users who use their systems just for fun or surfing the net!!!
3. gm3d

   
   Posted on: June 09, 2008 at 7:40AM  

   Windows Vista is slower at file transfers, even with the updates, SP1 was released too damn early and it seemed like it was rushed. Until i get my performance of XP SP2 i'm not going back to vista.

   Im always encountering errors with explorer which is a pain! not to be rude or anything but i say scrap this or work on the performance NOT THE VISUALS like the normal Microsoft thing. You should know what i'm talking about *cough* Windows Live Messenger *cough* Gimme an email if you want and ill tell you just about every single bug that you people don't know yet!
4. BringBackDos

   
   Posted on: June 09, 2008 at 9:55AM  

   If Microsoft ever get round to FINISHING Vista i.e after they bring their next OS on the market then maybe there will be some business value, but until then ....

   Sync Center only allows me to sync media files to a usb stick - very useful! will be a nice feature when its finished.

   Vista 'forgets' any settings for views of a folder, so get used to seeing 'ratings' for all your documents in explorer, but don't worry windows will 'guess' again the next time you view the folder - nice feature if it worked!

   oh yeah and blue screen may not be such a regular anymore but now you get the green ribbon of death!

   God I wish I'd bought a macbook! Dell won't let me 'Upgrade' to XP so I guess I'll have to wait for SP52 (They must manage to finish it sometime!)
5. BringBackDos

   
   Posted on: June 09, 2008 at 10:07AM  

   Oh yeah, and by the way I've never been a Microsoft Basher before, but then again I've never been so disappointed by an OS - I could forgive minor twinges, but some of the 'quirks' are obviously just not finished! It makes working with the system on a daily basis really horrible. If after some SP the niggles get ironed out, I'll gladly post a 'Wow! this is great!' the IDEAS in Vista ARE good, but if I produced Software of this caliber, I'd be out of a job ....
6. CMYK

   
   Posted on: June 10, 2008 at 8:06AM  

   I appreciate the "business value" part of the title, but if you want to see your frame-rate in [insert favorite on-line game] drop to below the skies: Install Vista. How comes multi-core functionality is messed up?!1
7. BringBackDos

   
   Posted on: June 17, 2008 at 6:48AM  

   BTW don't leave a Laptop on Standby in a case! Vista is a bad sleeper and tends to wake up unexpectedly(bad dreams because of the guilt of being the worst OS since OS/2????), so if you miss breakfast on the way to work you can fry some eggs on your computer in the office .....
8. qwerty

   
   Posted on: June 21, 2008 at 8:43AM  

   I have read this paper and I think it is a document of great importance.

   Like a lot of users, we have been using Windows for many years, including 3.1, 95, 98 and XP. We evaluated Vista and found that it didn't meet our needs due to its poor performance, greatly increased hardware requirements and incorporation of DRM.

   Also, like a lot of users we have been hanging on to XP and waiting to see what Windows 7 would bring. The hope was that it would be dramatically different from Vista - smaller, quicker, with smaller hardware requirements.

   This paper makes it quite clear that there is no need to wait for W7 as it will be very similar to Vista in performance and requirements. The paper insists that we should not wait for W7 but switch now.

   The arguments and evidence presented are quite compelling and we have decided that, as the paper implies, the time for XP is past and it is time to move into the future.

   As a result this week we upgraded our entire network to Linux (Ubuntu 8.04). We kept our existing hardware and the performance exceeds that of XP and greatly exceeds that of Vista in our trials.

   We have been running both Linux and XP on different PCs for quite a while and so we are now experienced Linux users.

   This paper made the decision easy for us - thank you for publishing it!
9. Trobertszzz

   
   Posted on: June 23, 2008 at 3:03PM  

   This article was really informative.

   Company's IT departments should read this carefully and make a decision on what to advise based on what their users expectations and needs are rather than their own. Many IT departments will push what they like to support and not what is best for the company. Also, some companies will push out what they are sold and not what the IT department recommends.

   I've been involved in many roll outs and I remember back when XP PRO came out and it was the same old reteoric, hate it, hate it... then XP SP1 it's not so bad, and then XP SP2...XP is cool.

   I have not had any problems with Vista but, I don't let my neighbor kid support it, or a Mac/Linux guy work on it.

   This was a great article.
10. revelation

    
    Posted on: July 10, 2008 at 4:26PM  

    Working as a Desktop Support Analyst I cannot see our company going to Vista. I have become a fan of Vista and do see the many improvements over Windows XP.  The issue with business is hardware upgrades that would be needed with Vista also some companies are still running legacy software.