Even after two years on the market, Windows Vista continues to get negative press…most of it rightfully so. If all you do is browse the web and play solitaire, Vista isn’t too much of a problem. But in the business world, Vista and Office 2007 have created great havoc the past two years evidenced by Microsoft continuing to allow XP to be sold to businesses to this day after promising five times before they would pull it from the market.
This article describes the Texas state government aversion to Vista:
Texas to Windows Vista: Keep Walkin’? – PC World.
I have been sending out newsletters to a Lions Club and get reports for last three months they can open files. I save it as 2003-7 and they have trouble opening. I can open on my XP that is about 8 years old when I send from 2007 Windows Vista. I figure if I can pull it up they should be able to do it too but it is not working. Send it to a sister to redo format and then they can open it. Just glad I have a short period of time with it (new Sectary will take over all July 1st. Thanks for your help.
When sharing documents of any kind, it behooves all involved to learn how to create a PDF document. My favorite method of doing this is using CutePDF. It’s as easy as printing and guarantees that your recipients will be able to open it.
Microsoft hasn’t gone out of their way to make Vista very attractive to their business customers. Just one example, try and use Microsoft’s own enterprise licensing website with Vista and IE7 and you’ll be completely out of luck. The two are incompatible. Try again with XP and IE6 and things work like a charm.
Now that makes a LOT of sense!!??? You really have to wonder about those folks in Redmond sometimes.
In the spirit of doing “the Right Thing,” Microsoft should at least consider an “at cost” (or whatever name they want to use) discount (stimulous payback?) to those of us who waited, two years ago, vor “the New Windows” to come out before buying a new computer. Once Vista was out it was the only OS that came with new laptops at places like Circuit City so people bought it, being told, as usual, that “Newer is Better.” Give us hugely discounted (free?) upgrades to W7 (at equvalent performance levels matching out existing Vista systems). What is the W7 match for Home Premium?
Good luck with that.
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