Operating system poll

[Cajun]

About to load "Windows 7" onto a PC.

Nothing in poll for this OS

have it running in a VM here at work, seams plenty fast and stable, and faster than vista on same machine in vm.

windows 7 meant to be out by end of year they thinking

[TerminalAddict]

xp at work, vista at home, debian on servers and firewalls, ubunut on a mail server, centos on some NIS servers, Win2k3 on a webserver, win2k3

[Tank]

Interesting... anything critical, I wouldn't use anything else. People who actually know alternate operating systems inside out at an enterprise level are still pretty thin on the ground (no, not those morons who've done a few linux installs and think they can make it as a system manager)... if the alternate OS guy dissappears for whatever reason, those critical systems need to remain readily maintainable without me having to spend 6 weeks looking for another admin who's worth a knob of goat shit.

I was very involved in the design of the largest trading floor in Europe (well at the time) - you don't get much more enterprise than that - we used MS almost exclusively at the back end - with a few Sun boxes for shits and giggles.


The majority of our Enterprise clients also use MS - exclusively

[Mr Merde]

Been a long time since I saw one of those.

I know.

Fat finger disease

Must put brain into gear

[Cajun]

Home machine - Windows Server 2008
Work laptop - XP Pro

Work runs a mix aix(unix), linux, windows(most are these mix of 2000, 2003) servers. all clients windows

[jim.cox]

Where is Windows 3.0 and 95?

Same place as Windows2000 apparently

[Mr Merde]

have it running in a VM here at work, seams plenty fast and stable, and faster than vista on same machine in vm.

windows 7 meant to be out by end of year they thinking

Any problems I should look out for?

[Gremlin]

XP everywhere... either SP2 or a slimmed down SP3 in the odd place. Still using win2000 for some services as it has lower overheads.

Have specc'd out one vista laptop to a client, what a PITA that has been. Permission wise, there's this black hole around it, where applying all XP like settings, it still refuses to play ball.

Should probably start testing win 7 a bit, and also tempted when I have time to play with kubuntu 8.10 to see how mainstream it is...

[<Rhino>]

XP on my laptop

Vista on my home pc (havn't had any problems with it!)

XP pro at work.

There all the same to me!!

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

BeOS

[cowpoos]

Well, vista has been around for a while now so I am interested in seeing who is using it, and who uses other operating systems.

I currently use Ubuntu 8.10 running the LXDE desktop (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment)

I want windows 2000 pro again!!!!! never crashed in 4yrs...only ran 23 processes in the back round...would make my current puter run like a jet...as vista runs 119 processes in the back round with internet explorer and MS outlook open!!

[ckai]

We all have home offices in our company so we run OSX (we like things pretty and we also come to work in jeans and t-shirts and drink cognac).

Also have a vista laptop because I didn't want to infect a OSX machine with it to run some programs. My god what a nightmare..."it just doesn't work". I tried to figure out how to "downgrade" to XP and it won't have a bar of it.

[vifferman]

The worst thing about Vista is the version of MS Office that comes with it. I mean, what were they thinking? The functionality and look and feel has completely changed. These are, or should be, standard desktop tools.

I know what you mean / sympathise with you / feel your pain.
Although I run XP at work and at home, unfortunately the version of Orofice I run at home is some Vista-ised thing (Orofice 2007 or somesuch?) It's staggeringly crap. I thought they had reached the zenith (or is it 'plumbed the depths'?) of giving us what they thought we needed (i.e, change for change's sake; absolute control over what they think we want; obfuscation, frustration, etc etc.) with the last version of Orofice, but no. They have surpassed themselves.
Luckily, even though I work for a sotware house that is a "Microsoft partner", I can actually get by with not using many of their products. (IN fact, I said at my interview I wouldn't take the job unless they used my choice of documentation tools). However (but!), because we have to be at the bleeding edge, I know it's only a matter of time before I'm forced to have Vista, Windows 7 or whatever the latest horrible thing is.

[Gremlin]

The worst thing about Vista is the version of MS Office that comes with it. I mean, what were they thinking? The functionality and look and feel has completely changed. These are, or should be, standard desktop tools.

Office 2007 is still a standalone package, and Office 2003 will work on Vista. Yes, MS has entire tomes on how to write installers etc, down to options on button, amount of text etc... then they create different menu interfaces

...as vista runs 119 processes in the back round with internet explorer and MS outlook open!!

bejaysus!! Is this normal, or did you install a bunch of software (they often have a small app that will run in the background). Worst XP install I have seen is probably around 80-90 processes.

One of my own XP installs ran around 25-30 will a full complement of software installed

[Cajun]

Any problems I should look out for?

nah its pretty much vista with out the security bullshit to make it run slow. by basic looks of it.