Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Trials and Tribulations #1

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

What trials? What Tribulations? You are using the latest and greatest operating system – and you have trials?

You know jolly well – only a couple of months into a new operating system – bound to be problems.

But that is not all – I thought I was paying month by month for a hosting account – turns out that it is a year – and I wanted to cancel it. Bother! So I was stuck with the account. I guess I may find a use for it eventually.

Anyway – that will be enough for now – more on Vista et al later.

Vista for breakfast anyone?

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

I wonder how many people are now using Vista
I spend my life using computers and some of them have fairly old versions of operating systems. Nearly up to date now – but some will never become Vista solutions!
Yes – I have taken the plunge – and the main development computer is now running both Vista and Office 2007. Nothing really radical – since I had been using the release candidate installed in a seperate partition so there was no problems with hardware compatibility. However XP and Office 2003 were getting flaky – updates were not always installing properly and I did not want to go for a complete rebuild. So there we are – upgrade worked successfully – and I did not have retype all my passwords etc again!
Do I like the interface?
Yes, I do. But then I like the latest and the best. And I’m different from my neighbours – so I can crow for a little while!
Does it make my computer work better?
Not really – I think it is a much bigger operating system now – and even needs a DVD to do the install and as such there is quite a lot of “bloat”.
So there you are….