Re: OK, I surrender -- Abandoning Vista and going back to XP

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the OP's stance is of a developer rather than a user. Vista
seems to be acceptable from a user perspective, but may not be ready
for prime time from a developer perspective.

On 8/6/07, Jack Derham <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry to hear that you are surrendering to forces against Vista. I have been
> using it for six months now and have grown to enjoy it. Once the automatic
> updates got out into place in late June and July, I could even install WDSC.
> Never had any problems with iSeries Access. Did have to change the defaults
> setting for TCP/IP so that I could network with my other XP machines.
>
> Make sure that you have installed all of the updates from M$ and also PTFs
> from IBM.
> Regards,
> Jack Derham
> Direct Systems, Inc.
>
> P.S. Peter from Belgium suggested that he found a way to run Vista in XP
> default mode. Have not tried it myself but I sure his thread would be in the
> archives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of albartell
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:59 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: OK, I surrender -- Abandoning Vista and going back to XP
>
> Maybe you would like to comment on imho.midrange.com as I am sure other i5
> professionals would like to hear your results and reasons?
>
> I wasn't planning on moving to Vista for at least a year after it came out,
> but I may have just delayed it even longer :-)
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:52 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: OK, I surrender -- Abandoning Vista and going back to XP
>
> OK, yes, it's true, me, the MS-lover of the midrange groups have abandoned
> Vista after two months and I'm headed back to XP (man am I glad I moved to
> Vista w/a new hard-drive, just swap and reboot. :) ) As an end-user, Vista
> is absolutely great. I like the Aero interface (2.13Ghz w/2Gig), the
> integrated search is wonderful, you get used to UAC and the overall feel is
> fine. If I wasn't a developer I wouldn't have a complaint.
>
> However, as a developer, there are just too many things that aren't quite
> baked yet -- and not MS things, but 3rd party integration. Our .net profiler
> has issued with IIS7, as does cold-fusion. We need to run a number of VPN
> clients for our clients, and many of them aren't Vista-ready, and some of my
> power-tools aren't up to tweaking Vista yet.
> Plus, the inability to change stuff in "program files" as joe-user causes
> many apps issues.
>
> Office 2007 on the other hand... awesome! I've got O2K3 on my XP box, and
> I'll be upgrading to O2K7 as soon as I get a chance.
>
> Why am I posting this??? Mostly because we're all developers, and many of us
> are PC-based developers. If you're a pure-iSeries person, and you're running
> just an emulator to get to the iSeries, go a head, move to Vista. But if
> you're a PC developer, especially if you're using IIS a lot, don't go yet.
>
> -Walden
>
> --
> Walden H Leverich III
> Tech Software
> (516) 627-3800 x3051
> WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.TechSoftInc.com
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>
> Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
> (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>
>
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