[Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

[davemarree at virginbroadband.com.au]

Hi Jock

We won't be touching Vista. I have found it too memory hungry, slow and
problematic on systems with less than 2 GB RAM. My desktop runs Vista and I
find it quite annoying as many programs are still not Vista compatible. We
will be staying with XP for some time (just ordered some new devices that
come with XP SP3) however I will review Windows 7 due out mid year with the
view to roll out in the mid term. This OS sounds more promising and my read
on it is that it will be much faster and more compatible with software
types. 

Kind regards,

Dave Mitchell
IT Coordinator Whole School
The King David School

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:06:45 +1100, "Jock Garnsworthy"
<jock at willihigh.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Slightly off topic, but I would like opinions with what schools are doing
> re
> VISTA.
> It was deployed over the Xmas holidays here and we have had no end of
> problems mainly with very slow speed issues. I am trying to convince
powers
> to be to roll back to XP.
> 
> Any comments ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jock Garnsworthy 
> Williamstown High School
> Williamstown 3016
> 
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