Windows Vista nightmare

[scooterscot]

Get a Mac...

[xoggoth]

Accumulates errors, none of which can be fixed using supposed solutions on net. So far, cannot get Canon devices to work, all office progs open slowly, mail attachments save slowly, cannot access Excel from VB. If there is a fault on a CD the whole machine locks up totally and the desktop disappears, it sometime goes into a freeze for minutes at a time and spends ages caning the disc for no obvious reason. It is utter tulipe. Avoid.

[Platypus]

Accumulates errors, none of which can be fixed using supposed solutions on net. So far, cannot get Canon devices to work, all office progs open slowly, mail attachments save slowly, cannot access Excel from VB. If there is a fault on a CD the whole machine locks up totally and the desktop disappears, it sometime goes into a freeze for minutes at a time and spends ages caning the disc for no obvious reason. It is utter tulipe. Avoid.

You don't recommend it then?

[Spacecadet]

Accumulates errors, none of which can be fixed using supposed solutions on net. So far, cannot get Canon devices to work, all office progs open slowly, mail attachments save slowly, cannot access Excel from VB. If there is a fault on a CD the whole machine locks up totally and the desktop disappears, it sometime goes into a freeze for minutes at a time and spends ages caning the disc for no obvious reason. It is utter tulipe. Avoid.

is this just the home edition?
I've got 2 dell laptops running vista business (or ultimate)
one of them has SQL Server 2005 installed, Visual studio 2005, Office, MS Visio and project.
Only problem so far was getting SS reporting services to run, was down to some ASP .NET permission settings which are different in Vista (I let my dev guy sort that out). Worked fine eventually though.

[scooterscot]

'Windows Cobalt' is coming out next year.. 2009 release, special price for you sir £650

Comes in the following flavors:

Home, Famliy, pre-school, school, high-school, Ltd co's, business, Blue chip, Tescos

[gadgetman]

I can't see ANY compelling reason to move to Vista and lots of reasons not to.

I plan to stick with XP until Windows 7 comes along.

[contractor79]

I'd like windows xp back. Is this possible or will I just mess up my system? Vista is just awful I can't even use IE7 and Windows Media player.

[ferret]

I'd like windows xp back. Is this possible or will I just mess up my system? Vista is just awful I can't even use IE7 and Windows Media player.

Like one of the posts above suggests, hardware you have may be so new and shiny that the lazy creators have not made XP drivers so check that out before doing anything.

If you can get XP drivers then just pop the XP CD in, boot into it, format the Vista partition and then install XP over it. Had some ghey networking problems and generally slow Vista laptop, runs a treat with XP. Why anyone would want Vista is beyond me.

[Cowboy Bob]

Was doing a web-app demo at client co using Programme Manager's personal Vista laptop. IE7 kept saying it had no Internet connection, yet when IE was restarted it could magically connect again - losing the session and having to re-login and start from scratch again every time. Took ages to demonstrate around half the customer journeys to upper management with that pile of tulipe, before giving up and going and borrowing an XP laptop.

It didn't go unnoticed that the problem was Vista amongst the upper management either. Can't see it making into my current client co anywhere in the near future.

[BrilloPad]

'Windows Cobalt' is coming out next year.. 2009 release, special price for you sir £650

Comes in the following flavors:

Home, Famliy, pre-school, school, high-school, Ltd co's, business, Blue chip, Tescos