Yeah, I know. I'm usually running the latest & greatest betas of stuff,
but Vista left a bad taste in my mouth. I have memories of when I first
installed XP... No driver support, the system files all got moved
around, etc. The last nail in the coffin was the open/save dialog boxes
in Vista. They're beyond useless, and in fact a few steps backward. My
wife just got a new laptop in November that comes with a free upgrade to
Vista. We ordered it, but don't plan on installing it anytime soon.
Maybe toward the end of 2007 when SP1 is supposed to come out.
Yes, I'd rather be on a Mac, but I have similar views about OS X's
finder... The new views just aren't as handy as what was available in
MacOS 9. But at least they're usable.
Of course, this is my personal opinion. If you're seriously considering
installing vista, I recommend buying a hard drive to install it on, so
you can just swap back to the old XP one if you need to. Also, I'm only
talking about using Vista as a development machine. If you're talking
Media Center, then yes the Vista Media Center is well worth the upgrade.
Shan
Battershall, Jeff wrote:
Gosh Shannon, what a resounding, even gushing endorsement of Vista
(not)! :-)
In my 'old' age I'm getting a bit conservative having been bitten by
the 'curse of the early adopter' a few too many times - like doing RIA
development with AS 1.0. Maybe I can actually hold off being the
'first on my block' to install.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Shannon Hicks
*Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:50 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Slightly OT: Vista Feedback
I installed Vista on my laptop running MX 7.02, IIS and FB 2. They
all continued to work. It was everything else that broke. I lost
printer support (no Vista drivers, and the XP drivers didn't
transfer over). They did fix the hibernate bug, so Vista did
finally allow my laptop to hibernate, but the rest of the
interface was not only unimpressive, but confusing. If you use
Windows-R to access your filesystem, you're in for a shock when
you find out that they've moved some of the core directories like
Desktop, My Documents, etc. I didn't play around with it long
enough to figure it out... I ended up formatting it and going back
to XP.
Shan
Battershall, Jeff wrote:
My biggest concern in installing Vista on my laptop is whether it's
going to break my existing development setup:
CFMX 7.02 running with Apache with heavy use of Flex Builder.
Anyone out there has Vista running on such a setup without issues? Or
with issues? I'm still on the fence as to whether the feature set of
Vista is compelling enough to warrant the upgrade, and my
concerns about
screwing up my development environment are a big factor in my
decision.
Jeff Battershall
Application Architect
Dow Jones Indexes
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