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This user complain was published at Tech2: Janak Mehta, Project Manager with, Adweb Tech Trade has been using Vista for the past four months now, as his notebook was bundled with the Windows Vista Professional Edition. He says, “It has been crashing ever since I have been on it and keeps asking silly questions, consuming my time.”
Well, come to think of it most great grand fathers would blame the typewriter as the culprit for their unproductive hours insisting that their pen and paper could do the job. An old business man I knew would argue that keeping a log book with hundreds of pages of financial journal entries every month was more productive and faster than entering the values in quickbooks.
I am using Windows Vista for months and have been extremely happy with it.
My daily usage includes running four virtualized environments (Active Directory (DC), SQL Server (DB), SharePoint Server, Staging Environment) plus my host Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005, Office 2007, ton loads of .NET development tool applications and project management apps, reports, etc. Sometimes at home, I would take a break and even run Warcraft III Frozen Throne while all these apps are running and still enjoy unbelievable stability with the operating system. My windows XP would crash with just two virtualized environments when running a computer game.
I have no idea what mega and ultra application a project manager such as Janak is running on
his laptop that makes his life difficult on Windows Vista — probably some Ms Project and stuff.
Read the complain here.
U.S. government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also known as ATF has begun upgrade of their hardware PCs managed by Electronic Data System (EDS) via a $68 million two year budget. The upgrade is part of their three year upgrade cycle and the hardware they are bringing in would be capable of running windows Vista.
Gregg Bailey, ATF’s CIO, said that upgrading to Windows Vista would not immediately come after the hardware upgrade since they are still in the process of testing their applications. He also cited that he doesn’t see a compelling need to move to Windows Vista and is comfortable to know that their PCs, after the upgrade, is powerful enough for any migration to the latest operating system.
This is very good news for Microsoft even if a lot of people would view this as negative for the software giant. The agency upgrading to Vista capable hardware while waiting to finish testing all application compatability is fair enough. Windows Vista is not a computer game where gamers are compelled to get their copy on the midnight of it’s release.
The testing time for migration and hardware is within reasonable management timeline which would eventually bring profit and continous growth to Microsoft. The hardware upgrade only signifies that the agency would definitely move to Windows Vista in the future. This also signifies that the agency isn’t changing their operating system; otherwise they could make do with old PCs especially when the “other” OS can run on outdated hardware.
Microsoft scores big on this one.
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