Vista

SlickShoes · Feb 26, 2007

Ive just been at a tech forum about vista at my work and im 100% glad im buying a macbook next week. Sounds like they are tieing themselves in knots trying to make it more secure and just end up making a bit of a pigs ear of it from our point of view(deploying it as amanaged desktop) anyway!

RNDdave · Feb 26, 2007

What line of work are you in (If you don't mind my nosey question)?

I ask because I am interested to know what sort of business or industry takes the risk on a new Vista install so early in its release cycle - seems like a big risk to me.

I'm working for a company at the minute that is rolling out XP SP2 at the minute and thats after about 6 months testing

Likewise my previous employer got round to their XP SP2 roll-out about November last year.

SlickShoes · Feb 26, 2007

I work in IT Support at a University, we are NOT deploying vista yet just testing it we are looking at mid 2008 for deployment to open access labs, we only just got everyone on to XP but there are still lingering win2000 machines around the hospitals we support, and macs are the falvour of the month here with every post grad and staff member wanting one cos they look cool!

At least i can justify buying a brand new macbook now by saying i have to support them

RNDdave · Feb 26, 2007

SlickShoes said:
I work in IT Support at a University, we are NOT deploying vista yet just testing it we are looking at mid 2008 for deployment to open access labs, we only just got everyone on to XP but there are still lingering win2000 machines around the hospitals we support, and macs are the falvour of the month here with every post grad and staff member wanting one cos they look cool!

At least i can justify buying a brand new macbook now by saying i have to support them

Ah, ok then. it's amazing how long big organisations spend testing things isn't it - still it has to be done.

Justification for a MacBook? [any excuse]

mac57 · Feb 26, 2007

From previous posts on these forums, and just for pure fun:

VISTA = Viruses, Intruders, Spyware, Trojans and Adware

or

VISTA = Various Improvements Similar To Apple!

:dive:

christm · Feb 26, 2007

SlickShoes said:
Ive just been at a tech forum about vista at my work and im 100% glad im buying a macbook next week. Sounds like they are tieing themselves in knots trying to make it more secure and just end up making a bit of a pigs ear of it from our point of view(deploying it as amanaged desktop) anyway!

congrats ! lol. i dont think vista will make much difference in the functioning of windows. :bomb:

RNDdave · Feb 26, 2007

mac57 said:
From previous posts on these forums, and just for pure fun:

VISTA = Viruses, Intruders, Spyware, Trojans and Adware

or

VISTA = Various Improvements Similar To Apple!

:dive:

I like both of those the second one is my favourite