roderikk
November 4th, 2006, 02:29 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061031/tc_zd/192777
[..]Don't believe me? Check out what happened when the eWeek Labs—more people who spend their entire work day fighting with computers—updated a Lenovo ThinkPad T41 with 1.5GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Pentium M processor and an ATI Technologies' Radeon 7500 video card from a Ziff Davis Media standard Windows XP office image to Vista Release Candidate 1.
It wasn't pretty. Their recommendation was not to "upgrade" XP but to replace it with Vista. That's my recommendation as well.
Of course, if you do that, you'll also lose all the software the hardware vendor placed on the system, not to mention anything you installed. And, there's no guarantee that your old XP software is going to install without a hitch on the Vista system.
I mean, you do know, don't you, that Vista doesn't even install software the same way XP does? You are ready to deal with how to install software while taking into account how Windows UAC (User Account Control) works with it, right? And, surely you know that Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel utility is history in Vista, right? Of course, right!
My goodness, it's going to be one heck of a day when 99 percent of users get their Vista "upgrade." I foresee hundreds of thousands outraged users jamming vendor help lines, laptops being thrown out windows, and screams coming from every PC vendor's executive office in the country.[..]
So, loads of people will rush in and buy a new computer this year for Christmas so they can use the coupons to upgrade to Vista 'for free'... but guess what, just like upgrading from Dapper to Edgy isn't really recommended, upgrading from XP to Vista will be even more difficult (at least so it states). So they will actually have to do a reinstall...
What will the slashdot article on that be like ;-).
[..]Don't believe me? Check out what happened when the eWeek Labs—more people who spend their entire work day fighting with computers—updated a Lenovo ThinkPad T41 with 1.5GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Pentium M processor and an ATI Technologies' Radeon 7500 video card from a Ziff Davis Media standard Windows XP office image to Vista Release Candidate 1.
It wasn't pretty. Their recommendation was not to "upgrade" XP but to replace it with Vista. That's my recommendation as well.
Of course, if you do that, you'll also lose all the software the hardware vendor placed on the system, not to mention anything you installed. And, there's no guarantee that your old XP software is going to install without a hitch on the Vista system.
I mean, you do know, don't you, that Vista doesn't even install software the same way XP does? You are ready to deal with how to install software while taking into account how Windows UAC (User Account Control) works with it, right? And, surely you know that Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel utility is history in Vista, right? Of course, right!
My goodness, it's going to be one heck of a day when 99 percent of users get their Vista "upgrade." I foresee hundreds of thousands outraged users jamming vendor help lines, laptops being thrown out windows, and screams coming from every PC vendor's executive office in the country.[..]
So, loads of people will rush in and buy a new computer this year for Christmas so they can use the coupons to upgrade to Vista 'for free'... but guess what, just like upgrading from Dapper to Edgy isn't really recommended, upgrading from XP to Vista will be even more difficult (at least so it states). So they will actually have to do a reinstall...
What will the slashdot article on that be like ;-).