Urrrrgh - Vista upgrade forced on me at work!

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I have been told that I have to upgrade to Vista because all the senior bods in my company are running it.

I am NOT a happy bunny!

Anyone else been forced into it?

 

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you have my condolences

 

Nope, my MD keeps banging on about it but I keep telling him how expensive it will be. Funnily enough he doesn't want it any more!!

Could you not have a dual boot with Xp and just use Vista when you have to support the higher beings?

 

Tried that argument - even tried to convince them to let me run it as a VM - but apparently I have to toe the line and be using it in production. Arse.

 

Poor you zeb, as we're still testing it at work and can't get it to work with our Citrix farm especially the business and ultimate edition. To be honest it is all annoying as this happens with new MS operating systems time after time.

Well when looking on the bright side there would be a service pack before the end of this year

 

Not even been mentioned at my place, and long may it stay that way!

 

nope not hear either, the MD did mention it and after i hit him with my bat he soon came back to reality

 

The MD has it here but were not rolling it out so no point in slowing our dev machines down with it.

 

Not being rolled out yet, office 2007 / exchange 2007 planned for June/July 08. Our Finance Director got it on his new laptop and has been have problems. So if the money man don't like it I guess it is a good

 

I cant beleive you guys hate vista so much , I was a XP pro lapdog for 2 years. And honestly ive yet to see a fault that would degrade service to my company. To the citrix guy , what problems are you having ? ive installed citrix on 2 client servers and im using citrix right now with my remote connection. So please explain what the problem is with vista , all services run smoothly with a solid built network.

 

Thanks, I don't actually hate vista is just that at the moment vista business and ultimate edition when used by our users via citrix error message is "connection error - driver protocol error".

We've updated our five server farms to ica client 10.150 version but still no joy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

That is actually a very different error than i would expect , have you tried rolling back to version 9x? Id like to see this problem duplicated on the 9x presentation clients. Most of the updates citrix tries to roll out is to reduce the amount of resources vista uses. This is quite simple. After doing so the problem may or may not go away. Let me know what happens with the rollback.

 

I dont hate it(I use it in my house and thats about all i would feel comfortable using it on)

 

Our corporate philosophy for the desktop environment is to skip Vista and remain on XP. No gripes against Vista; but I can’t really complain about the corporate reasoning. There simply isn't a strong ROI for making the change from a business point of view.

 

Had my first ever problem with my mums fiance's vista laptop today, had to mess around with the registry to get the DVD drive working again.

 

We have one client with it and that's only one user to trial their software with it and so far it's been rebuilt three times and the same laptops running XP have not been rebuilt at all

Also found a bug in a fresh vista install, one of the recommended updates in windows updates causes the laptop to BSOD on reboot, Dell advise that MS will be issuing a fix for it, but for the mean time you have to remove it.

if anyone has the problem, you need to 1st boot up and disable automatic reboot, so you get the BSOD, power it off and back on, hit F8 again and select "allow unsigned drivers" and then the laptop boots, remove the problem update and voila, laptop works again..

Another issue is performance from a fresh install, the indexing is very useful, especially with Office 2007, however the amount of time it takes to install applications, XP from scratch with all applications, user data etc.. is about 4hrs, Vista laptop, same spec 8hrs...

 

Well... it's good to use what you have to support... still, being forced into it sorta sucks.