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but you see if these in house devs had good programing practices (such as not use undocumented api's and such) there would not be a problem, and if there was then there is the compatibility mode that should solve it...:)
but of course when you are in charge of 1000's of computers, "most" (thats why they have IT for...) have to work (and at the cheapest possible price (of course balancing out quality too)...)
they were catering to the masses with shiny things...:)
powersaving is one of the most important things (especially now)IF MS instead had focused on Bitlocker (no need for expensive third party cryptos), The enhanced powersaving (reduced electricity bill), The capability to run all machines on a single image (reduced costs for IS staff) and so on alot more companies would have used vista.
the single image idea would mean pretty much automated restores/reinstalls in case of hardware failure which greatly streamlines the process of IT...
im actually surprised that my college has vista enterprise computers and they are pretty much locked downEven today i meet customers and other IT-pros that doesn't know about Vistas capabilities in theese areas since all they heard was aero......
they are pretty much able to control everything with this enhanced security and when it happens that a computer breaks down well...
well it does take time for a new computer to get to the college but once it does its operational in less than 2 hours (including all updates, with all the necessary software )
im begining to think that the only time they talk about enterprise features (in win7) is when they are talking about server 2008 r2...I hope thar MS learns this leasson for Seven but so far it has been Aero,Aero and Aero again and a little about faster boot times but almost nothing about direct access. Even better powersave. The delta repliction for offline files ans so on. All of theese are prodction improvements for the users and if you can show that your users can save 1 hour a week using Vista/Seven instead of XP, any reasonable CIO will launch a case studie to see that his benefits will be and most likley issue an uppgrade.
its funny since i have never experienced these horror stories on ME that people talk about...
(maybe because i wasnt tinkering around...)
i have personally installed on 6 Machines ME which originally had Windows 98 because USB support was a must and they have and still are working with no hiccups (that was about 5 years ago)
i think only me and joan (one of our members here) are the only ones with good experiences with ME...
i cant just can say anything else by agree with you...
8 years was too long for OS to be available, people got used to XP and now some wont go ( and its fine, i personally know one of my professors that will stay with XP because it just works for him) to any of the OS'es in the future (including Win 8 and so on...