I am not a person who is in the Vista sucks camp. I am in the Vista is initially painful camp, but the pain goes away as you learn how to get things set up and find the things you know are there, but are somewhere else now.
I think there are four reasons people don't like or have problems with Vista, in my observed priority order: 1) People are sheep and heard it was bad and propagate it is bad without trying it on a machine they own. Similar thing to VFP 9 SP2, heard it has a bug from someone else so I am not loading it. Making long-term business decisions based on hearsay is plain short-sighted. 2) Installed on under-powered hardware, then complained to the world it stinks (see point #1). Yes, there are performance issues with file copying and other things, but a lot of these were addressed in SP1, and I am confident will be even more in SP2. Vista should only be installed on new hardware, period. 3) Change is bad, people are very comfortable with a solid working Windows XP and don't need "eye candy". Don't fix what is not broken. Solid business approach. 4) Some apps no longer work: my biggest gripe is SQL Server 2000 won't even load and I have lots of customers using it. There are only a couple of things like this, but if they are a pressure point you are never going to budge these machines and businesses. Solid business approach, but one that will have to give at some point in the future. This was the reason I delayed it on my development machine. I think one of my clients put it best: Things are different. To succeed with this OS you have to go with the new flow and not fight the OS and try to make it work like Windows XP. Yeah, a little Zen, but he is right. The different layout is painful at first, but like anything even monkeys can be trained to do things differently. I am looking forward to Windows 7. Microsoft has proven over and over when they lay an egg they learn from the mistakes made and come back with a winner. I am hopeful this will be true again. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/000601c95d42$b9e5a730$2db0f5...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
