Re: Vista and SP1


"RAM³" <s31924.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g2gGj.11137$L52.10107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Tom T" <tominkirkland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:64te6oF2dka1sU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
stan.birch@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:25:32 -0700, JD <ham@xxxxxxx> wrote:

We are preparing to head out for the summer in a few weeks. I just
got a new Dell 1525 laptop and am pondering installation of SP1.
Does anyone have experience with the above mentioned setup or
something similar? I really hate to get SP1 installed and have a
catastrophy occur.

Oh Johnny Boy:

One of my kidz: an IT architect/engineer for one of the world's
foremost data-dependent organizations; refuses to consider running any
kind of VISTA-oriented stuff any time in the near future, other than
at home, as an experient!

Bill's latest crap, simply does't work!!

Yeah, right. It's typical of any IT department to wait before upgrading to a new platform. The previous company I worked for hadn't upgraded to XP and that was 3 years ago when most other companies had already taken the plunge. It's a new OS system for them to learn and then there is the unknown factor.

The OP wasn't asking if he should install Vista, he was asking if he should install SP1.


SP1 is what most IT groups have been waiting for before dealing with Vista.

One of the pre-SP1 problems was the difficulty of networking Vista machines with non-Vista servers and desktops.



My Vista workstation has been connecting to a Windows 2000 server for about a year now. As I described in my other response...Vista requires a different sequence of login than past versions of Windows. Vista Ultimate and Vista Business are the only version that have capability to login into an Active Directory Domain. You have to specify the Domain in the Machine Name area of Vista. Once you specify that Domain you will have a difficult time connecting to a Workgroup type network (peer to peer). You can connect, but sharable resource are not available. This is all due to strengthened security.

But rest assured...Vista can connect to non Vista servers and Non-Vista workstations. And that has not changed in SP1.

Nate

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