RE: [Scottish] Windows Vista Business value thingy

2007-02-20 Thread Colin.Speirs
Umm, I won a Dell 820D laptop. It claimed on the notice that it was top of the line, but the spec seemed fairly mid to low to me, aprt from the 256MG Graphics card, which may be necessry given the flash in Vista. Don't have my hands on it yet, they have to preload Vista and Office 2007

Re: [Scottish] Windows Vista Business value thingy

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Back
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, ed wrote: One things Vista will do is preload favourite apps for quicker load when you want them, don't know if that has any performance impact or how that works for non-MS apps. Something OpenVMS has been able to do for (probably 20) years:

Re: [Scottish] Windows Vista Business value thingy

2007-02-19 Thread Kyle Gordon
Andrew Back wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, ed wrote: Send back the media and license agreement and see if you can get a cash refund :o) Indeed. Dell seem to be acting nice about it... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6144782.stm Just make sure you document it properly. :-) Kyle

[Scottish] Windows Vista Business value thingy

2007-02-18 Thread ed
Hi folks So I went to this event, more as a break from an onerous project that I am as anything else. Myself and other folks, including one, umm, 3levels above me, wondered why we were there as it was aimed at movers and shakers, not the grunts deaing with systems support, business analysis