I also am skipping Vista...does anyone else have the same feeling as me with changing to Windows 7/2008 Server, that MS let XP/2003 bed in for so long that we all hate the changes? I don't remember NT4 --> 2000 being as annoying as the changes that I am experiencing now with shifting to Windows 2008. I despise the default desktop, the fat icons, the hunting through roles and features to add stuff in....although, to be fair, they have significantly reduced the attack surface of a basic Windows server by doing the last of these. Am I just getting old, cranky and stuck in my ways, or does anyone else feel the pain?
2009/7/24 Bill Lambert <[email protected]> > I have Windows 7 on my dream list for next year's budget so we'll be > skipping Vista. All XP clients here...no Vista. > > Bill Lambert > Concuity > 847-941-9206 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:06 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 edition comparison > > We will start the move to Windows 7 sometime in 2010, otherwise all XP here > with one Vista machine. > > _____________________________ > Cameron Cooper > IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified > Aurico Reports, Inc > Phone: 847-890-4021 Fax: 847-255-1896 > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:59 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 edition comparison > > We are still an XP client shop, with about 1% of the systems running > Vista. I envision us going right to Win 7. > > Don Guyer > Systems Engineer - Information Services > Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group > 431 W. Lancaster Avenue > Devon, PA 19333 > Direct: (610) 993-3299 > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:50 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 7 edition comparison > > Currently support XP on systems we roll out. Allow Vista for systems > researchers buy on their own. Movie to win7 for our rollouts after > evaluating the release version. > > We are skipping Vista as a standard desktop. > > -sc > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:45 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Windows 7 edition comparison > > > > With the impending move of the Windows world to version 7, I thought > it > > would be prudent for the list to discuss this. In addition, most of us > > would use a Windows desktop, in one form or other, on a personal > system > > to access and/or administer corporate servers/networks. > > > > Off the top of my head, questions would be (but not limited to): > > > > . Staying with XP? > > Why / until when > > > > . Staying with Vista? ;-) > > Ummmm... > > > > . Recommendations to management/clients regarding upgrading? > > > > . 32 or 64 bit? > > > > . Which edition of se7en (as my 13 year old calls it) > > Microsoft is not very helpful here: > > > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/compare- > > editions?T1=tab01 > > > > This is better: > > > > http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/14422-compare-windows-7- > > editions.html > > > > -- > > Peter van Houten > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
