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By: Jignesh

Jignesh — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:51:38 +0000

I haven't installed it myself yet and have only tried it in new laptop computers of a few of my clients... but confirming what you say, it does give headaches. There are Engineering Resume in Sampleresumes.in which is nice.

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By: sol

sol — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:09:41 +0000

Its instructive that XP had a shelf life of around 6 years, while Vista was only around a year while they began talk of its successor Windows 7.

I think they got it wrong on both fronts with Vista

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By: idearius

idearius — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:48:53 +0000

I haven’t installed it myself yet and have only tried it in new laptop computers of a few of my clients… but confirming what you say, it does give headaches.

If you only use Vista and Office 2007, after you get used to the changes in the interface things may be OK, but there is no way a company can easily fit to that description (example: if you have Office XP/2002, Vista will not let Outlook remember passwords).

Rather old PCs that support XP and 2000 simply will not integrate easily with Vista, yet those cheap PCs can still work great for most of the administrative tasks done everywhere, making it unwise for businesses to replace them.

Replacing computers makes less sense at home, and particularly in the non-developed parts of the world, where Windows 98 is still very much present, and families and businesses don’t want or cannot afford to replace computers where everyday tasks can still be done.

So I wonder what did Microsoft people think about the non-developed world when they pushed Vista. Are they convinced these users are not worth the business effort? Maybe they thought they would -at most- spend some money in a little RAM and pirate and hold to a copy of XP for ages? Or that they would switch to Linux anyway?

By the way, at http://www.vistaexperiences.com I am putting in writing some of my thoughts on my early encounters with Vista, and would appreciate any comments you could make.

Cheers.