Comments on: Monday Morning Update 5/18/09

By: Vista v Win 7

Vista v Win 7 — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:47:23 +0000

I think Win 7 was very nice, but beware that the drivers and video cards and such might take time to adapt.

Vista at the current service pack is very stable and most of the driver issues are dealt with.

XP, Vista and Win 7 are all solid OSs. I think the trick with MS operating systems (especially as compared to Mac) is that they don’t exert complete control over the platform elements and therefore what ever version you pick, the real thing to watch for is the maturity of driver support.

The other issue to check carefully before you jump in is the security model and its potential impact on any software (other than MS Office products) that you might depend on.

Each version of Windows usually ends up making dramatic improvements in the security infrastructure, but often that creates a support lag for the software gusy – so add ons, macros, virus checkers, emulators, etc. all need to be checked out carefully. Basically – make sure that if you depend on something more than just MS Office and IE 8 that you carefully check things out.

By: Question

Question — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:08:51 +0000

Yes. But from XP to W7 RC to W7? Or am I just crazy? Stay tuned.

By: Timmy D

Timmy D — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:35:06 +0000

From the comments it sounds like many people are considering going straight to Win 7 from XP in the business community. Just from personal use of both OS’es I have to agree with the common point of view: Vista never has been ready for primetime but so far Win7 seems a worthy successor to XP.

By: Question

Question — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:24:10 +0000

Ralph Hinckley Says:

“RE: Best MS OS Upgrade Path… Latest release from MS doesn’t have an XP to MS 7 upgrade. Only upgrade is from Vista to MS 7.”

We are not upgrading….we are installing W7 RC new. So the upgrade path does not apply.

By: Question

Question — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:39:54 +0000

We run MAC hardware so we can bounce between OS whenever we want. I’ve got Leopard and W7 RC on my MacBook and Vista on my Mac-mini in my office, soon to be W7 RC. The cost of a Mac-mini is comparable to a PC and much smaller.

We are deploying about 300 Mac-minis to our clinical areas. I really don’t want to roll-out with XP. And we’ve tested Vista but the technical staff was not comfortable with rolling it out. Now they are exploring W7 RC as our deployment OS until W7 is offically released.

Anyone have comments on this approach? I acknowledge this is an unorthodox approach. But is it viable?