Ultimate?
There was an interesting article in the IT section of todays West Australian Newspaper about the installation of "Windows Vista Ultimate" (recommended retail - over $700 in Australia) on an HP Intel Centrino Duo 1.73GHz laptop with 1GB of RAM that was running "Windows XP Professional" perfectly.
This was what happened:
- Following the approval of the "Upgrade Advisor", the installer stopped and insisted that offending applications that might interfere with the install process were removed! They were mainly trivial.
- The installer reported that the nVidia graphics driver was not working - a bit of a worry! Would the monitor simply not work or would a generic on-board driver be used?
- Following the report by the installer that the installation would take several hours in the end it took 3 hours!!!!!!!!!!! Yep 3 hours to install everything - unbelievable!
- Yep the video card didn't work properly so there was no - screensaver, games or Google Earth! No driver could be found at the nVidia site that would work!
- Native Microsoft applications could be installed and some third party but many opened reporting errors or refused to work at all!
- The "Assigning for Windows XP compatibility mode" fix for older applications did not work at all!
- Windows Media Player would not recognise DVDs!!!!!!!!!!! - the video card issue again!
- A mobile phone Windows XP happily recognised no longer was and the automatic software update for it failed!
You have been warned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interestingly, there is no inclusion of this story on the West Australian's Website!
I am uncertain but I believe they may have been one of the organisations that had agreed to implement Vista.
Mustn't upset Microsoft must we?
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=30
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