Re: Vista advice needed

Yep, but only in a rarely-used VPC.

-Chris


"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
com> wrote in message news:%23rqv7hvJIHA.3848@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You mean you *have* Vista running in your area?! ;-) I have completely
avoided it. I have enough problems with Platform Manager, Windows CE
4.2/5.0/6.0, various SDKs, etc. without adding an OS that won't sync with
my Windows Mobile device (or at least not even as well as ActiveSync 4.x
does), to the mix!

Paul T.

"<ctacke/>" <ctacke[at]opennetcf[dot]com> wrote in message
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Then I count you as lucky. I have currently supported development tools
(like Platform Builder 5.0) from Microsoft that won't even run on the
damned thing and there are no plans to ever make it work. Evidently when
a new product comes out, all projects and engineers from the previous
version are expected to be shot. Nevermind the fact that Microsoft has
promised a 10-year life cycle for the tool and the OS, and therefore the
OEMs promise the same to their customers.

The fact that Studio itself wouldn't run until they released a patch was
a clear indicator from the start that the developer was a second thought
with Vista. Maybe by SP4 it will be better and I'll try again, but for
now Vista is relegated to running only on a VM almost everywhere within
our company, and is used only for late cycle testing when we know
everything works on XP first or when someone specifically has a Vista
question or issue.


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"David Hearn" <david.hearn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Whereas I've used Vista ever since it came out and had only one serious
compatibility issue (bad shell extension included in some old free hex
editor which crashed explorer a number of times a day, but Vista
gracefully recovered each time). After removing the app, no problems at
all.

I do embedded C development (okay, in a Linux VM on Vista), and desktop
and Windows Mobile app development in Visual Studio 2005. No issues
what so ever with what I do - even though I was expecting to have a
number of them.

Oh yes, I also had issues with an old set-top box SDK designed for NT4
which barely worked on XP and now, fails to read the unique ID for the
machine consistently (changes each reboot so cannot activate the
license). But I have my old machine for the very infrequent (1 - 2 times
a year?) times I do that.

To put it simply, on a day to day basis, my ability to do my job in
Vista is exactly the same as it used to be in XP.

D

dbgrick wrote:
I agree 100% with Chris. I reformatted my hard drive on my new
computer and installed XP Pro.

Rick D.
Contractor

"<ctacke/>" wrote:

If possible get it with no OS, otherwise when you get it the first
thing to do is format the drive and roll back to XP Pro. Vista just
is not good for developers - I know of way too many people that tried
it and ended up rolling back after much frustration. Save yourself
the headache and time of reinstalling everything and avoid Vista.


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"Rob S" <RobS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to invest in a new laptop and a large majority of the ones
(especially
the DELL XPS) are now running Vista.

I've had vista running on my PC at home for a while now and certain
things
just doesn't really work well, such as VS.NET 2005. Mobile
development
doesn't seem to work the same as on XP either.

How have you guys found the migration went from XP to Vista? Should i
just
stick with what i know best, XP ?

Any advice greatly appreciated








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