I SHACKED UP WITH WINDOWS VISTA

Wonderful post from a blogger about his experiences using Vista instead of Windows XP or a Mac – well worth reading the whole thing.”At least Vista has better habits than WinXP. Vista may be outgoing, but she’s cautious, too. She won’t just...

MOSSBERG ON NEW COMPUTERS

Walter Mossberg is an influential tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Today’s column is a well-justified complaint about the process of setting up a new computer.Mossberg is moderately complimentary about Windows Vista; although the most time-consuming...

TIMESLIPS & VISTA FOLLOWUP

Timeslips has updated its web site with information about Vista compatibility – or more accurately, lack of compatibility. Other vendors are working out their Vista issues; Timeslips is beginning to stand out like a sore thumb.The company reports firmly that...

UNINSTALLING OFFICE 2007

I finally received a copy of Office 2007 and installed it on my Vista computer a couple of weeks ago. This afternoon I irritably uninstalled it and went back to Office 2003.It wasn’t the drastically changed interface, although it was as jarring as predicted....

VISTA UPGRADES GONE WRONG

By coincidence, I ran into two stories about miserable experiences upgrading from Windows XP to Vista: a tale of woe from a BBC journalist and a similar story from a PC Magazine columnist. They are stories of hardware incompatibility and lack of drivers and system...

VISTA COMPATIBILITY

The PC industry is in a state of flux as hardware and software developers wrestle with Vista. The security improvements in Vista go deep into the system and the developers are having to work hard to rewrite their programs and drivers so they will work smoothly. Some...