[AccessD] Deploying - Access 2003

...a sound habit formed from too much miserable experience :)

William

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From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:36 AM
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deploying  - Access 2003

> Hi William
>
> So 10% work - that's the Lenovos, lucky me.
>
> My machine at work is a five year old IntelliStation at 2 GB (rambus => a 
> fortune). It runs XP and will continue to do so until replaced. My former 
> machine was an IntelliStation too, put into service with NT4. Speak about 
> ROI.
> Seems like a habit to skip every other version of Windows.
>
> /gustav
>
>
>>>> wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com 26-01-2010 13:38 >>>
> ...lol ...spoken like a true cultist :)
>
> ...Win 7 has a rewritten kernal ...the Vista bells & whistles are are 
> there
> but the snail has been replaced ...I tried Vista when it was first 
> released
> and it was a cripple on 90% of the hardware I support, a no starter ...I
> think of Vista as much akin to Windows Me, a technical and marketing 
> failure
> between Win98 and WinXP ...but that's ok, if you're happy I'm happy for 
> you
> ...just you keep Vista and I'll keep XP and wait for Win 7 to SP.
>
> William
>
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> From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:06 AM
> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Deploying  - Access 2003
>
>> Hi William
>>
>> Win7 is just the latest SP of Vista so you may happen to wait for a long 
>> time.
>> I like my Vista by the way. Maybe you just don't understand Vista!!
>>
>> /gustav
>>
>>
>>>>> wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com 26-01-2010 02:04 >>>
>>
>> ...imnsho, anyone running Vista deserves what they get :)
>> ...I'm still on XP with Win 7 on a vhd ...I'm waiting for the SP1 on Win 
>> 7
>> before I get serious about upgrading ...I've run a couple of my major 
>> A2k3
>> apps on it and not noted any problems ...but I've also noted that others
>> here have gotten into Win7 in more depth and there appear to be a number 
>> of
>> small gotchas ...another reason to wait for SP1 ...I'm passing A2k7
>> completely, it's a mess imnsho ...maybe A2k10 but I'm much more 
>> interested
>> in VS 2010 as I've noted before.
>>
>> William
>
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