I was just about to respond in a similar vein as Ann
--
Although I haven't been a sysadmin for a few years
now, my general rule with any MS product was not to
touch it until SP1 came out. The initial launches of
most of the major Windows OS followed the similar
pattern as Vista: the initial launch revealed the
bugs/usability issues not caught my MS QA (assuming,
of course, they do QA ;) ), and these issues get fixed
in the SP.
As Ann says, the switch in productivity software is
often less of a shift -- IMO, this is also due to the
reality that students are spending more time online,
and only using a small portion of the range of
functionality within the Office Suite --
Toward that end, maybe this would be agood time to
give OpenOffice a whirl --
Cheers,
Bill
--- Ann Hamel <ahamel@fvs.edu> wrote:
> Alex,
> My experience with the two products this year would
> have me voting for
> just the opposite. Vista has been nothing but a
> thorn in our side.
> There are so many things we can no longer do because
> of the dramatic
> changes in Vista. Very security-oriented, but not
> user friendly. Maybe
> the SP1 will be out by summer, but even then I would
> be cautious. On
> the other hand, the transition to Office 2007 has
> been fairly smooth.
> The changes there are mostly visual and not
> conceptual and the learning
> curve has been a nice and gentle slope. Our
> students (who supply their
> own laptops) have come to us begging to help them
> re-install XP over
> their Vista and others have given us the
> patiently-waiting-for-you-to-catch-up look in
> regards to Office 2007 -
> no changes wanted there.
>
> Good luck!
> -Ann
>
>
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