> > Thanks, Greg. > I know you are enamored with Vista 64 but I have been struggling with > Vista 64 for months now and I keep thinking things are better and I > am going to see all the value in it... but I haven't. One thing is > for sure, I would not let Vista or Office 2007 anywhere near my > company... the hassles and learning curve with Vista and Office 2007 > would cut productivity by 80 percent. > > Most people in a office environment have very limited and specific > computer skills and now you want them to forget all that and start > over? I am only managing because I use XP PRO with Office 2003 in a > VM to get my work done. >
I know that my user base is fairly atypical since it is a software company, but I actually have a fair number of users upset with us because we WON'T do a mass deployment of Vista and Office 2007. We're doing deployment by attrition...new users and machine rebuilds only for Vista, Office 2007 on new machines/rebuilds and by request/need. For technical staff, Vista and O2k7 have been a complete non-issue. Even the non-technical staff (mostly operations employees) have picked up both very quickly, with little to no involvement from us. By the way, my brother was able to install Quake 4 on his Vista64 (technically, Server 2008 x64, same thing) workstation. He did say that autoplay crashed, but setup.exe works fine. Greg
