Recently I’ve been in charge of the PCs purchasing decisions in the company I’m working in. I’m afraid I made a huge mistake that maybe hundreds/thousands/¿more? of other people did too.
I bought a brand new PC with Microsoft Windows installed. The hardware manufacturer was one of the big ones, the one you buy it online… you can imagine.
At the beginning I thought I had done a great deal, there was a huge discount on Vista vs XP and I could also get a very good deal with the newest Office Suite.
The problem came a few days later, Vista seemed to work but after a few Windows Updates and installing some company STANDARD software (Adobe Acrobat, a decent IM system (Jabber) , a decent browser (Firefox), a decent email client (Thunderbird)), the computers became almost unusable.
Unluckily I’m not using of Vista, but this is brief of what I have heard form the users:
- Firefox screen bounces up and down after a few clicks
- Vista takes 3-5 minutes to boot up (2 core hardware 1 GB RAM)
- Vista won’t shut down, or it will take the same 3 - 5 minutes.
- Vista will suddenly will LOSE Internet connection, after a “classical” reboot it will work again (5+5=10 minutes)
- Vista will randomly crash, apps too
- In one of the PCs even I saw the blue screen of death after the 1st boot!!
You can imagine how embarrassed I was after this. I was able to cool down some users after I sent them an interesting Slashdot article: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/19/20225 - Google Cache HERE
This was his reply:
No sabes el consuelo que significa !
(You don’t know how relieved I am)
RVF
I’m not sure what to do now, I could forget about Vista and buy XP, return the PCs, maybe install another OS?. Anyway is difficult to get the confidence of users back after this kind of problems, NOT TO MENTION THE MONEY.
