[CentOS] Re: ISC dhcpd and Vista clients

[Scott Silva]

on 7-31-2008 1:43 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:

on 7-31-2008 12:42 PM MHR spake the following:

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Scott Silva
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Microsofts answer is that Vista is right and the rest of the world is
wrong
(typical), but if you want it to work you have to regedit every affected
machine and change something.

That is unacceptable in a business environment, IMHO.

The solution is obvious: either don't get Vista in the first place, or
upgrade to XP SP2 (NOT SP3).

;^)

mhr

I'm just testing because we have acquired laptops with Vista. Not my choice,
but I have to support it or stop collecting paychecks. I guess I'll have to
choose support it

Stop collecting paychecks is not among the valid options here.

Here either...

 My understanding

(from a thread here a few weeks ago?) is that it is 100% legal, under
the Microsoft
licensing of Windows Vista, for a system that comes with Vista to be
changed, to use MS Windows XP.

Only with certain versions of Vista(Business and Ultimate I think), and you have to already have OEM preactivated, retail, or Corporate XP licenses available. I have plenty of bulk licenses for XP, but a lot of new hardware is swinging to Vista drivers only.

  Also, I read that Microsoft extended the EOL of Windows XP. We

have 3 Windows XP SP2 boxes and I suspect with Vista on them, they would be
*very* slow. Would your company consider wiping the drives on those laptops and
installing XP SP2 on them? (I think SP3 is buggy?).

Networking began with Unix and now Microsoft is rewriting the rules?

I could not find XP drivers for it, but I need to find a way to fix the problem, since Vista is inevitable unless I can drag my feet until the next wonderful raping from Microsoft. The laptop only comes into the office occasionally, but it belongs to the assistant GM, so I'll chug through it for now. Maybe Microsoft will release a hotfix that actually fixes this. I see many complaints.

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