Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-25 Thread William Helman
Like Cynthia that decision is made at the campus IT level. Over the past year I've migrated nearly all lab and staff PCs from XP to Win7 (keep an eye out for a related question I'll be posting later today on that topic). Campus IT is toying with some Win8 images, but haven't been happy with any of

[CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-24 Thread Forrest, Stuart
Hi All Just taking a quick poll...Who is using windows 8 in their libraries and of those how many use staff, public, both?? And if not why?? Thanks Stuart Forrest PhD Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library Beaufort SC 29902 843 255 6450 sforr...@bcgov.net

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-24 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hi Stuart, We've received a number of Surface RT tablets which we'll be using in the Fall. Right now, it's only staff trying them out but eventually students will use them. We don't have a timeline for migrating our public computers to Windows 8. My biggest impression is it's probably wise to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-24 Thread Ruth Frasur
Our library is still on 7. We will most likely almost wait until the release of Window 8.1. We will be moving to touch screen monitors as well. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Eric Phetteplace phett...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Stuart, We've received a number of Surface RT tablets which we'll be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-24 Thread Cynthia Ng
Our public and staff machines are controlled by IT. Some staff are still on XP though most are Win7, public is on Win7. At my former place, public was controlled by IT and on Win7. Staff had just moved to Win7 over the last year. The move to Win7 + Office 2010 + Google Apps was such a big change

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows 8

2013-07-24 Thread Francis Kayiwa
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:01:42PM +, Forrest, Stuart wrote: Hi All Just taking a quick poll...Who is using windows 8 in their libraries and of those how many use staff, public, both?? And if not why?? I will join the refrain of wait for 8.1 unless you are using a touch device. For the