Saturday, October 21, 2006

Running with Vista RC2

I downloaded and installed RC2 of Windows Vista two weeks ago, installed Office 2007 (Beta 2, Technical Refresh 2) and a number of other 'Must have' applications, and found that it ran rather well, and I am getting to quite like using it.

One problem, however, was that I was not happy to use it too much without any Anti Virus software installed. That was cured e when I installed Live OneCare 1.5 on a 180 day trial. This supplies AV, Spyware, backup, Tuning tools etc. and is compatible with Vista.

I am now a converted VISTA user, and have not needed to switch back to XP all week. That was until now...

1st: I recieved my BT Homehub, and found the software will not install under Vista, initially I thought it may be an IE7 thing, but it worked OK under IE7 in XP...
2nd: I have tried several times to use w.blogger v4 in Vista, and whist it runs fine, it fails to upload... hence the 20 day gap since the last posting!!
3rd: I have a web based training course to attend on Monday/Tuesday and that too will not work in Vista

So for now, it's back to XP - for a couple of days at least

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