Comments on: Up and running with Windows Vista

By: Amazing customer service is the new marketing : NevilleHobson.com

Amazing customer service is the new marketing : NevilleHobson.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:02:20 +0000

[...] 2007, installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition. A fresh install from a boxed retail copy, not an upgrade from Windows [...]

By: Do any Windows Ultimate Extras actually exist? : Next

Do any Windows Ultimate Extras actually exist? : Next — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:50:08 +0000

[...] since I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my Dell desktop PC last April, only one Ultimate Extra has ever shown up via Windows [...]

By: Fun with Dreamscene : NevilleHobson.com

Fun with Dreamscene : NevilleHobson.com — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:11:44 +0000

[...] since I installed Vista Ultimate in April, I’ve never seen any Extra available for download through Windows [...]

By: Windows Vista rocks (mostly) but Outlook 2007 sucks at NevilleHobson.com

Windows Vista rocks (mostly) but Outlook 2007 sucks at NevilleHobson.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:24:29 +0000

[...] During the Easter weekend, I installed Windows Vista on my primary desktop PC, a Dell Dimension XPSGen5. [...]

By: neville

neville — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:52:11 +0000

Thanks Derek. While installation was painless, I’ve had a few interesting experiences in using Vista over the past week. Follow up post to come.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:41:18 +0000

Well done! I’m glad to see Stuart and I aren’t the only out there who found the installation relatively painless!

By: neville

neville — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:06:08 +0000

For me, Susabelle, ’stunning’ is the right word. It goes far beyond the pretty stuff you see on screen and into what the various elements actually do as you interact with them.

Glass is very cool, there’s no doubt. Yet all my Mac-o-phile friends already scoff, saying they’ve had better coolness on their Macs for years. That’s as maybe - what’s relevant to a Windows user is now you can have it on your PC as well.

But, it looks like beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

By: Susabelle

Susabelle — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:51:58 +0000

“especially if you want to take advantage of the coolest usability feature of all - Windows Aero, specifically Aero Glass which offers stunning glass-like translucency effects to everything you see on your desktop. It exceeds the expectations I had from just reading about it or seeing screenshots.”

C’mon, Neville. “Stunning?” I’m using Vista on a Dell GX745 with a 22″ Apple Cinema Display. I don’t see “stunning.” I see “nice” and “purty” but I don’t see “stunning.” I was not impressed.

By: neville

neville — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0000

Yes, Office 2007 has excactly the same packaging. I was able to figure out that one once I knew how to open the Vista box!

By: Francis Wooby

Francis Wooby — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:41:18 +0000

Glad to know it wasn’t just me. It took over a quarter of an hour for me to finally figure out how to get my new copy of MS Office 2007 out of the funky new “box.” Finally I had to admit defeat and get help from my wife. Of course she solved the puzzle in about twenty seconds.