I'm currently using Vista ultimate x64 at home and Vista Enterprise in the test environment at work and here are my thoughts so far.
The good:
- It's good we finally have a x64 OS that is widely supported by the IHVs. If you have new hardware you can be confident of driver support. Also with RAM prices so low at the moment it's easy to have more than 3gb of it in your PC and hopefully software developers will create programs to take advantage of it. That should be a compelling reason to upgrade.
- I've used bitlocker at work and that is a really nice benefit for our mobile users. Actually my Vista test laptop (A Dell D620 with TPM module) was stolen a few months back so in theory I don't have to worry about identity theft!
- The new start menu –it's a nice GUI enhancement
- SSTP client in SP1!
- UAC. I actually turned it off as the bugs the crap out of me. But the best thing about it will force ISV's to write software that will run without UAC prompts as a limited user. It's a real drawback in XP that much software needs to run as root. As a side effect hopefully ISV's will use user profiles more intelligently too.
- Lots of needed under the hood changes.
The bad:
- I can already most things in xp sp2. Eg .IE7, Windows Desktop Search for Outlook 2007, Print management console. Plus all my applications actually work in xp
- Horrible, horrible software compatibility. Even half of Microsoft's own software breaks. I can believe MS didn't try harder to fix this before release.
- Ntbackup crippled
- Laptop compatibility –lots of weird issues with sleep such as usb not working, search indexing going nuts, networking breaking , etc
The ugly
- The boys from Redmond telling us the best way to deal with the application compatibility problems in our test environment is to use Softgrid. Nice!
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