It is interesting that Symantec (yes the famous or infamous distributers of Nortans) complained until recently that MS is not cooperating with them so they can release a version of Nortans antivirus compatable with Vista. A good fiend of mine was upgrading his daughters old PC. He bought a new PC with Vista loaded. I went to look / help set it up as I have not seen Vista before. On firing up the machine there was a 3 month trail version of Nortons antivirus. Fully compatable with Vista. Seems that in the last 2 months MS obviously spoke to Symantec and the work was done. I realise alot of IT people hate Nortons for various reasons, but they at least managed to get it done - the reason why MS was so slow talking to them, must be because MS has there own anti-virus package now. Now, had all the other software suppliers, hardware suppliers etc. refused to do anything, Vista woud not have been released. Norton's knew they had to fight as they have competition. Cedric
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Machell Sent: Saturday, 10 February 2007 10:51 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Open letter to Medtech On 10/02/2007, at 10:45 AM, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: Ash Is Vista less tested than Win95, Win98 & WinXP were when they were initially released ? It's been a lot better tested than any of these. 95 and 98 were unreliable toys, XP was a security nightmare. Yet lots of people jumped in getting those OS shortly after each one was released. A lot of home users. Even with the wholesale change in 95 it was some time before most businesses upgraded, and most of them chose NT. Vista is a lot better out of the box than any MS OS before it, but probably not more reliable than XP SP2, which is (finally) a reasonably mature and securable system. By all means upgrade at home (unless you want to play games right away). The expectation that software houses should be ready to support a system that has many radical changes in it immediately on release is not realistic - and not much different than demanding a Mac or Linux client, after all they've had plenty of time with these systems to test them, and probably more immediate potential customers than with Vista. Peter.
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