I've already heard lots of nightmares about Vista incompatibilities. As I have written earlier, it probably won't be worth installing on existing machines expect in the most tightly controlled environments, and even then many of the features won't work well with older machines. I suspect lots of people and companies will hold off until there's a really compelling reason, which for businesses right now there isn't.
This video kind of sums up the upgrade experience as most people I have spoken to have experienced it.
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Skawt seems to be the exception to the rule -- he's running Vista Business on his tricked-out homebuilt desktop system without a problem.
He did have to dig out some beta drivers to get his video card working properly, but other than that it was quite smooth.
I'm not touching Vista yet, though.
Posted by fiat lux | February 6, 2007 9:19 PM
He did have to dig out some beta drivers to get his video card working properly
I think that statement says it all.
If you're one of the .01% of people out there who would recognize that the problem is with your drivers and would know where to go to get a beta version of an unreleased driver, then you probably can make it work.
Everybody else needs to shy away, and that includes any corporate sysadmin who should not under any circumstances be installing beta anything on end-user PCs.
If the business continues to run well, I'll be due for a new workstation by the end of the year, and I'll probably have no choice once the next version of Photoshop comes out, but until then I can see no reason to rush ahead.
Likewise, I'm sticking with Office 2003. The new version will be somewhat incompatible and I don't know anybody who's using it yet, so I'm holding off.
-btc
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February 7, 2007 10:25 AM