[News] Windows Vista is Still Not Ready, Early Adopters Are Testers (Microsoft-Watch)

[Roy Schestowitz]

Windows Vista: More Work in Progress

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| Yes, much as I like Vista, it feels very much like a work in progress.
| The list of potential gotchas gets longer every time I look. Microsoft
| Update is one mechanism for getting stuff compatible with Windows Vista.
| But how long and at what cost to Microsoft and its partners? If there's
| a silver lining it may be the good business for the channel, because
| somebody is going to have advise on this stuff or fix it.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/windows_vista_more_work_in_progress.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/yb4t43

Related:

Life with Vista - Is this dogfood really for the dogs?

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| # Vista is not ready for primetime. By that I mean that Vista still
| feels like a beta. That's right. It has so many compatibility
| problems with existing applications that running anything other
| than stuff from Microsoft that specifically says "for Vista Build
| XXXX" makes me feel like I'm taking my life into my own hands.
|
| 1. Games - don't even get me started...
|
| 2. Visual Studio 2005 - I can't find the words to express the irony...
|
| 3. Virtual PC - worthless. Don't even attempt on Vista.
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http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/vista_dogfood.htm

Visual Studio vs. Vista: What's going on here?

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| * Visual Basic 6.0 (supported)
| * Visual Studio .NET 2002 (not supported)
| * Visual Studio .NET 2003 (not supported)
| * Visual Studio 2005 (supported, but will have "compatibility issues"
| until some nebulous set of post-SP1 fixes ships)
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http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=42426

Windows Vista: Work In Progress

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| Already, the list of non-compatible applications or hardware is fairly
| long. Microsoft's own Vista updates add to the number of third-partyp
| atches on which businesses will have to conduct compatibility testing.
| The burden is yet another reason to see slow business deployments in
| the early months following Windows Vista's release.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/windows_vista_work_in_progress.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

SQL Server 2005 SP1 won't work with Vista

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| It's no secret that a number of applications, including
| several of Microsoft's own, are not going to work properly
| with Windows Vista when the product ships.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=71

Vista Breaks Applications

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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
|
| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2237

Lack of Internal Talks at Microsoft, Google

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| Maybe my "Microsoft's Entertainment Domination" theory was a bit
| premature. Apparently, the Zune MP3 player isn't flying off shelves
| and now it turns out that the Zune is incompatible with Microsoft'
| latest Windows Vista operating system. Amazing how a disconnect like
| this can occur within an organization. Software start-ups are taking
| advantage of the lowered development costs and the speedy development
| time -- and forcing large software organizations to speed up their
| own development cycles, but in the process, the large organizations
| are fumbling to communicate effectively amongst their departments.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/lack-of-internal-talks-at-microsoft-google/

Microsoft Vista is slow to take off

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| Other problems for the Vole are that Vista has not managed to
| get adequate software compatibility yet particularly in the
| virtual private network and anti-virus software area. Among
| the bigger software names that still are not working on Vista
| are Lotus Notes, Cisco and Check Point's VPN clients, Intuit
| QuickBooks 2006 and anti-virus software from Trend Micro.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36677

Vista Issues Bedevil Firefox

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| According to the release notes of Firefox 2.0.0.1, the edition
| issued Tuesday, the browser hasn't yet been given the all-clear
| for Vista. Among problems still on the list: Firefox cannot be
| set as the default browser in Vista, and updates may fail if the
| application is installed to a directory other than the default.
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http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=196701481

[wjbell]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Windows Vista: More Work in Progress
>

Marked as off-topic spam, Roy Schestowitz.

Please keep posts on-topic to the charter of this newsgroup; Linux
advocacy. Failing to do so disrupts
the group, floods it with off-topic spam and plays a part in ruining the
medium for everyone.

Please exercise some newsgroup etiquette, Roy Schestowitz. See:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/

[The Ghost In The Machine]

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, wjbell
<wjb...@none.net>
wrote
on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:27:14 GMT
<C%unh.2564$ji1....@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net>:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Windows Vista: More Work in Progress
>>
>
> Marked as off-topic spam, Roy Schestowitz.

How does one mark a post as off-topic spam? Superceding it?

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