That’s interesting, Paul. Thanks for that feedback about Vista. I imagine a lot of people feel the way you do. Besides, from what I’ve read about its lack of drivers for common existing peripherals and the amount of RAM it devours, it sounds like it would be an expensive proposition to upgrade to.

I sent the below article to our help desk support people today, with my condolences. From the sound of it, as soon as people in our company start to install Vista, all h3ll is going to break loose.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17992/page1/

All best.
dave

I agree with Peter on this. RSS in its current form and future incarnations will take over how we view media. I envisage RSS reading on our televisions and iPods. The simplicity and convenience of it is too great to ignore. I for one will ensure we have RSS on our own site in it’s next revision.

Office 2007 is great. I’ve been using it for the past year in pre-release form. RSS in Outlook is superior to Internet Explorers Implementation in my opinion, especially in my work as I spend the majority of my working day staring at outlook’s interface. Word and Excel are improved. Publisher is really just the same with a few more templates and I’m still trying to figure out where Infopath fits into the office family. I imagine it pairs brilliantly with wndows sharepoint services but havent had the time to take a look.

On Vista

Aside from the annoying security features in Vista, I’m yet to see what Vista offers the employees of the company I work for. I suspect I’ll be sticking with Windows XP for quite some time yet for my collegues. With the internet becoming a huge part of our working lives and many applications we now use being web based, do we really care if Windows has nice animated windows and a transparent interface? As long as my browser is good I am happy !

I heard on the BBC digital planet podcast the other day that some experts think lots of people and companies will delay upgrading for this reason. Even so, one would have to respond to the changes in Vista. But I’m curious if you think widespread delay very likely.

dave