Comments on: Uh Oh, Now you guys are in trouble! http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/ Incoherent ramblings from a redneck tech geek Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chris Leckness is a Geek - » A little slow posting, it’s Vista’s fault http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/#comment-6332 Chris Leckness is a Geek - » A little slow posting, it’s Vista’s fault Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:08:28 +0000 http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/#comment-6332 [...] Chris Leckness is a Geek - » Uh Oh, Now you guys are in trouble! (No Ratings Yet)     Loading ... [...] [...] Chris Leckness is a Geek - » Uh Oh, Now you guys are in trouble! (No Ratings Yet)     Loading … [...]

]]> By: Jerry http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/#comment-6028 Jerry Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:08:49 +0000 http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/#comment-6028 I have been running 32 bit Vista Ultimate on my test platform which is a 3ghz P4 with 2GB Ram and an Intel chipset for a few months now. To my surprise all my development software products have worked just fine. The only exception was Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and that was a small feature incompatibility. Not a big deal. But the big downside to running Vista was that there were NO non-beta virus software packages available. So I was reluctant to convert my development workstation to Vista. I recently contacted Symantec via email and explained my situation regarding anti-virus software. I promply received an email in return inviting me to participate in the pre-release testing of Norton Internet Security 2007 for Vista. They were actively seeking testers at that time. I am now an "Official" Symantec tester. So now I have an anti-virus package. I figure it's time to upgrade my develpoment platform which is an AMD 64 bit processor with 2gb of ram and the nVidia nForce3 chipset. I installed the 64 bit version of Vista Ultimate that i downloaded from Microsoft using my MSDN subscription. It took forever for the install to complete. But, it did complete and successfully. Everything seems to work fine. The only outstanding issue I have with Vista is with chipset drivers. Neither nVisia or Intel have "release" chipset drivers so i am stuck using the generic Vista drivers. I'll have to admit that I am very pleased with Vista, so far. I have been running 32 bit Vista Ultimate on my test platform which is a 3ghz P4 with 2GB Ram and an Intel chipset for a few months now. To my surprise all my development software products have worked just fine. The only exception was Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and that was a small feature incompatibility. Not a big deal.

But the big downside to running Vista was that there were NO non-beta virus software packages available. So I was reluctant to convert my development workstation to Vista.

I recently contacted Symantec via email and explained my situation regarding anti-virus software. I promply received an email in return inviting me to participate in the pre-release testing of Norton Internet Security 2007 for Vista. They were actively seeking testers at that time. I am now an “Official” Symantec tester.

So now I have an anti-virus package. I figure it’s time to upgrade my develpoment platform which is an AMD 64 bit processor with 2gb of ram and the nVidia nForce3 chipset.

I installed the 64 bit version of Vista Ultimate that i downloaded from Microsoft using my MSDN subscription. It took forever for the install to complete. But, it did complete and successfully. Everything seems to work fine.

The only outstanding issue I have with Vista is with chipset drivers. Neither nVisia or Intel have “release” chipset drivers so i am stuck using the generic Vista drivers.

I’ll have to admit that I am very pleased with Vista, so far.

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]]> By: Jen http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/#comment-5984 Jen Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:16:00 +0000 http://chris.leckness.com/2007/01/13/uh-oh-now-you-guys-are-in-trouble/#comment-5984 It looks a lot more like OS X with the widgets and everything. And the outlook mail looks very similar to OS X's mail program. They must be moving more in that direction. It looks a lot more like OS X with the widgets and everything. And the outlook mail looks very similar to OS X’s mail program. They must be moving more in that direction.

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