Not Going Vista at Work
Posted on May 9, 2008
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Late last year I shared some of my thoughts about Vista. At that point I’d been using it on my work laptop for about a month. The conclusion at the time?
To wrap this meandering thing up, I’ll just brazenly come out and say it: I like Vista. (don’t confuse that with me saying I don’t like any other OS. That interpretation would be silly and illogical).
Not much has changed since then. In fact, I’ve even been pondering going Vista at home too.
And ya know? I might stick with it for home. But after the past week’s tribulations, I’m going to pound a stake in the ground and boldly state that I will not be taking my company to Vista. We’ll stick with XP until the next option presents itself.
Why?
I and our CTO just blew a week trying to configure his new laptop running Vista Business so that he could develop on it. During that week all we’ve done is chase error dialogs, event viewer stuff and security issues. Been a total time sink and, after too many days with not enough to show, we tossed in the towel and I just re-delivered his new laptop — with XP on it this time.
Had his domain account in the Local Admin group. Turned off UAC. Did all sorts of farting around with permissions on directories and registry keys. We’re a .NET development shop. If the guys can’t even build and run their apps locally… well, that’s just worthless.
Are we clueless? Probably — we’re certainly not Vista experts. But should it be this rough to get productive? We’re not running old stuff: Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005.
So yeah. Knee-jerk reaction, but we’re skipping Vista. Maybe I’ll change my mind if I see a “Dummies Guide for Being a .NET Dev with Vista”…
Tags: microsoft, vista, Windows, XP
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I’ve really been happy with my laptop on server 2008… perhaps you should give that a try on some other (less important) machine.
I’ve been looking at the comment window for 10 minutes trying to write something that didn’t come out as a smarky comment…but….I can’t lol!
Vista is the modern equivalent to MSBob…and to think that when they first started talking about all the stuff it’d have, I was actually looking forward to taking a look at it….and when I finally touched it…I realized that MSBob had been reborn.
@Marc - do you do .NET development on it? Is it easier for a dev to setup than XP (or similar)?
@Vox - I have no desire to get Visual Studio 2008 running in WINE just to say I run *nix. None at all!
Vista > Bob — there truly are some innovative and useful features (the launch/start combo thing being huge in my book). But for some uses or needs it just doesn’t seem fully baked. :-\
my friend have many problems with his Vista. Especially when he wants to install programming tools. The most problem is when he wants to install Borland C++ 5.0.
May be its because the BC++ 5.0 is an ancient sofware..
