OT: Regarding Vista

[Avery]

Thanks for the support, Horace! :-D That's what I intend to do!

Avery

At 06:59 AM 1/20/2007, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>..coming in late on this thread:
>
>Based on testing being done locally and in other departments at Stanford,
>I'd suggest that, unless you really have money to throw at some pretty
>fancy new hardware, waiting on Vista is going to be the safer bet.  We have
>assurances from Dell (hmmm...rather like guarantees from some well-known
>piano makers) that WinXP will be available on their new machines through
>2007.  Based on other information from other institutions that are well
>into testing, the common wisdom (at the present time) is to wait until MS
>decides how stable they will make the first release.  Historically, this is
>usually with Service Pack one/whatever.
>
>Our tack here, 200 +/- users, is to stay with WinXP Pro while the dust
>settles; and buy as few new machines as possible until it becomes clear
>what really does and does not work.  The reason for this is based partly on
>the fact that MS changed the driver setups so often during the beta cycle
>that it is not at all clear what actually does and does not work.
>
>That said, if you are feeling adventerous, Vista looks pretty promising.
>
>Best regards.
>
>
>Horace
>
>Quoting Avery <avery1 at houston.rr.com>:
>
> > Thanks, Duaine. I'll probably just stay with XP until I get a new
> > computer. :-)
> > My current one is only 1 yr. old.
> >
> > Avery Todd
> >
> > At 07:45 PM 1/19/2007, you wrote:
> > >OK. The gist of the article means, that in order to run Vista, you WILL
> > >be required to UPGRADE almost ALL your PC components. Also, if the
> > >upgrade parts are not Vista specs compliant, serious performance -
> > >video, audio, CPU (speed), amount of memory needed - degradations or
> > >disabling WILL OCCUR.
> > >
> > >Avery wrote:
> > > > TMI for me! All I want to know is does it work or not?! In the
> > > > meantime, I'll stay with XP!
> > > >
> > > > Avery
> > > >
> > > > At 10:33 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote:
> > > >> http://seclists.org/isn/2006/Dec/0107.html
> > >
> > >--
> > >Duaine Hechler
> > >Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
> > >Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> > >Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
> > >Reed Organ Society Member
> > >St. Louis, MO 63034
> > >(314) 838-5587
> > >dahechler at charter.net
> > >www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
> >
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