Vista Woes
Since I manage alot (about 40) of Windows machines as a side-task of my
main job, I decided I would be a farsighted employee and so when buying
my new laptop I went against my better judgment and purchased Vista.
And since I thought I should make sure I had all the available bells &
whistles I paid extra for Vista Ultimate on a Lenovo Thinkpad. Ouch!
Seven months later I'm convinced the extra features meant extra
headaches because the Lenovo in particular does not play well with this
flavor of Vista. Vista Enterprise seems more stable - I don't know
why. Vista Home Premium seems more stable than Ultimate but does not
function well on a business network. So I very much enjoyed this article:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9199&tag=nl.e539
Path Dependence
I hope Vista will be improved by the time SP2 rolls around. I really
do, because I doubt I will be using non-Windows machines for my
professional work by then. The Mac users on this forum may be
underestimating the power of Qwerty - aka path dependence - and so even
if as they contend Mac is vastly superior it's unlikely to shift the
balance much more in the current generation (which is why I suspect they
are targeting the youth market). I have been playing with Linux Ubuntu
for my personal stuff and have worked with Macs a little bit because the
other part of our organization is *all* Macs. I think the ability to
dual boot right now gives Linux an advantage for people migrating away
from Windows (and the Wubi software method of installing helps - though
you have to be careful to back up everything before installing it
because it did screw up one of my computers) plus the cost of course.
Parallels looks really cool but when I ask the IT guys on the Mac side
of our organization they say it's nice but still has problems. If Mac
wants to attract away more Windows users from the current generation of
users I think they need to improve that software a little bit because
most users/businesses/organizations really need a good set of training
wheels to reassure them that the switch won't spell disaster. And why
no sub-menu mouse button - would it really be so wrong to add that?
Cheers,
JL
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