Fun with Vista
About a year ago, I thought my company would have to start doing integration work with Vista, so I installed it on my MacBook Pro to familiarize myself with it. Unfortunately, I was not impressed with it due to the fact it bugged me way to often to authorize something trivial, like copying a file and other things. I must admit it was prettier than XP, but the benefits certainly did not outweigh the negatives. I eventually (after about three weeks of fighting Vista) reinstalled XP on my laptop for my Windows only work.
Now one year later and Service Pack 1 has been released. In the meantime we have had exactly one customer ask for Vista. After installing Vista again along with Service Pack 1, it seems a bit nicer, but I will have to wait again and see.
It seems incomprehensible that Microsoft could have screwed this release up so badly. I hope Server 2008 works out better for them.
I have very little experience with Vista so far, setting up a new machine for someone and transferring their data.
I would warn users to make sure you’re using the most up-to-date drivers, especially for your printers. This user had a printer shared via a Windows server and the XP drivers killed the Print Spooler. Every time you’d try to print or go to Printers in the Control Panel, the spooler service would be stopped. I had to remove all the printer drivers to get it working again and was able to get a new driver CD from the manufacturer to install the printer, downloaded Vista drivers didn’t want to work for me either.
At least it’s pretty.
Comment by joel — March 31, 2008 @ 3:23 pm