Vista editions comparison
Windows Vista: Compare Editions
I posted this because this morning I was looking for some bulletized list of what all the different Vista editions were supposed to do. I wonder if MS plans on selling certain features in the future - e.g. the remote desktop client, which apparently doesn't come with Vista Home Basic (which sounds a lot like "loser" to me) or Home Premium (which sounds like "poser" to me). Marketing speak. I love it!
Also, scraped from slashdot, apparently PC manufacturers have until this year to switch over to Vista. I wonder, in anyone else's job, are "the people" clamoring for Vista? This seems to be shoved down our throats.
i've had the "pleasure" of running Vista business edition for the last few weeks. Let's see, in the first couple of days i turned off UAC, because it was annoying, i guess now i'm insecure? I turned off the sidebar and gadgets because they were pretty useless. What am I now left with? WindowsXP with a new 'theme.' Oh and did I mention that adminpak (aka active directory/exchange management tools) are not supported on vista (though i managed to find out how to get them installed and to have SOME of the tools work)!? what kind of crap is that?
...end rant
i have an IBM ThinkPad T60 with Vista Business on it, Office 2007, et al MS's latest shit and like WylieAK have turned all the new shit off, essentially rendering it a freshly-skinned XP.
My biggest complaint is that i have yet to find a way to make it operable with our Cisco 3000 Series VPN Concentrator.
I've gotten it to work with our ACS Server [TACACS] internally but from the outside it just sits there, spinning and spinning. No word yet on a new client.
wasn't the search feature supposed to be neato? i find it rather disappointing - esp compared to Spotlight.
Also, our client-side guy can't get it to work with our Keyserver, which manages software licensing across the enterprise.
and yes, people generally want it, ha, you'd think people who work in advertising would be immune to it?
not so.
and my boss has hyped it up so much that we're cringing. he wants Exchange 2007 up just as soon as we can verify it's capable of not interrupting production.
that goal is related to getting rid of Entourage as it's calendaring capabilities are like non-existent. we've got several folks running CrossOver versions of Outlook on Macs to mixed results.
what is it with bleeding-edgers? they just want to be able to SAY they're "running this and that."
has anyone run it on 64-bit systems? i wonder if it's any *cooler*
as for me, i'm seeing it as just another hassle of hoops for IT folks to hop through at great expense of time and effort for what benefit? i'm not sure other than the gee-whiz factor.
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chaddo - you want bleeding edge? tell your dept. to go back to DOS, FreeDOS.
i find Vista's search feature pretty handy... after spending 15 minutes clicking around trying to figure out how to activate i just searched the control panel and voila! ;)
i'll agree here..., the search feature works good for me, and definitely better than XP's search..., haven't used Spotlight..., is that on one of those newfangled pretty white computers? :)