Going to VISTA?

Information Week did a survey: Over a third of the companies would be
on VISTA within a year, but 30% had NO plans to EVER upgrade.

As an aside, I have seen average PC users with new VISTA PCs which
have supremely disappointed the owners. The last was VISTA home
edition on Dell 1501 Inspiron laptop yesterday, which is only a week
old, used for email via Yahoo which is now almost unusable. It takes
a Minute or more to load a web page or Explorer, and getting Explorer
to navigate to network settings crashed every other time I tried.
Every piece of malware must have attacked that machine in the last
week. So much for advanced security for the average user.

I just can't understand the mayhem at Microsoft, as I really expected
a more intuitive GUI, not less. I can't see MS as leading the charge
for being the OS that runs high end software like SolidWorks into the
future.

Am I MISSING something?

Thanks - Bo

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201492

Quote:
Tech professionals at the businesses surveyed were asked the following
question: "When, if ever, does your company plan to purchase and
install Windows Vista?"

One quarter of the 612 survey respondents said they were already using
the new OS; 13% said they would do so in the next 12 months, while 27%
said their companies would adopt Windows Vista more than one year from
now.

But in what will surely be viewed as disappointing news at Microsoft
headquarters in Redmond, WA, a full 30% of those surveyed said they
had no plans to upgrade their systems to Windows Vista -- not ever.

 

Bo,

Have the notebook user check the performance settings in the mobility
section of Vista. Mine came with a default setting for extended
battery life which really killed performance. Once I changed that
setting, performance for general use is pretty good - even with 1GB
RAM.

My biggest beef now is buggy support for dual monitors. It will work
fine after a cold boot (not easy to do with a notebook on Vista!) but
once it goes into sleep mode, the second monitor is inaccessable.
(The display is there, but you can't move the mouse to the second
screen.)

Still, I would NOT recommend Vista for SolidWorks - at least not yet.

 

Unfortunately, my view of VISTA is that it is going to take a year or
two for it to settle down.

Meanwhile, unsuspecting XP Pro users who barely know how to use XP are
going to be a bit baffled by VISTA, as has been seen with the last two
users I worked with.