Solutions for Industrial Computing

NOT! I like my hardware/software to be "Leading edge, but not Bleeding edge". Vista is bleeding edge. Until an OS gets to SP2, I won't even consider touching it, it isn't stable enough.

I don't care if every office computer in the plant goes belly-up. That doesn't affect production. But if the plant controls network goes down, everybody from the GM to the janitor will be standing behind me asking; When will the system be back up?

My daughter has Vista, and it S**ks! Microsoft's focus seems to be "make it more user-friendly" - and less flexible. The OS is always trying to second-guess me, and getting in my way.

Microsoft seem to have got the whole concept of Supply and Demand arse about face.

Vista? No thanks.

I have noticed that, ever since Win 98 and Office 97, every upgrade I have looked at has increased the time required to accomplish the tasks I need. I still prefer my old Win 98 machine for real work- mostly because I have some old software and equipment that are incompatible with XP.I also have a couple of XP machines that aggrevate me no end. I have looked at Vista, and decided it does nothing to enhance my productivity- so when I needed a new laptop, I found an old machine still loaded with XP at a close-out sale. I ahave worked with a number of other XP units, and find that that operating system also comes in a bewildering multiple of versions. Now, the Palm OS- THAT is how an operating system should work! I can even interface it to some of the old equipment that won't work with my new XP laptop!

have noticed that, ever since Win 98 and Office 97, every upgrade I have looked at has increased the time required to accomplish the tasks I need.

Ah so it's not just me then! Surely someone has told Bill this or is it always a case of the 'Emperor's New Clothes' ?

Bought my new laptop, with Vista Loaded on it. Smoking deal. Crashes so regularly I feel like a test dummy. It does have many good points but stability is not one of them.

I liked NT4.5 but Vista at what looks like 5GB running on a machine 26 times faster than my NT machine just don't seem much faster and a lot less stable.

It does seem to be getting better but it is still beta.

To late I found out that my 2x64 bit processor is tied to 32bit hardware and I have a 32bit system. I'm back to building my own systems and unless MS cleans Vista up I'm going Linux where I can fix it myself, not be told a $100.00 per hr just to look at it.

Buyer beware

Brad

My wife's Windows XP box locked up so badly that it wouldn't boot. So I put my Kubuntu Linux CD in the drive, booted off that, and fixed the files on her hard drive that Windows had corrupted. Ironic, isn't it. I had to run Linux to fix Windows.

I have a feeling if someone could write a solid OS and the software in assembler. Think one CD. The speed would be blinding. Gee that would be progress.

That would be the ultimate Hack.

Brad

No, not ironic. Expected.

My laptop (new last Christmas) came with XP-Home with an offer for a free Vista upgrade. In the end I wiped the drive after 5min and put on Fedora. Without the overhead of anti-virus and all the extra windoze stuff it motors along faster than our XP-pro workstations that (in terms of hardware) are leaps and bounds ahead. People walk up and ask if I'm running Vista or a Mac all the time! I'm no command-line guru so as the soon as the install and config could be done in a GUI I was converted and haven't turned back.

I have used Vista and found it to be nothing more than BLOATWARE which slows down my machine.

Vista has problems other than being just Bloatware.

There are still major security holes and bugs.

There is also the problem of Vista calling the Microsoft Mother ship hundreds of times each day.

Details passed "up the chain" to Microsoft also includes information they freely give to their "Associates".

Details include exactly what programs are installed, version number, licence number, music on the Hard Drive/s, passwords in some cases, and so on.

The instructions for this data transfer are written many times, and interwoven into Vista, so that they cannot be gotten around, and still have a usable Operating System.

Here we have well over $60,000 at original purchase costs, of older software and Operating Systems, all now unused.

I don't intend to use Vista, ever.....

i run vista ultimate on a p4 2.66 with 512 ram and have yet to see these fabled crashes evreyone claims to see it's been runing vista since beta 2 and the only compatibility issue was with aol something i had been looking for a good reason to get rid of anyway.