Vista - one month on December 18, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : Technology , trackbackA month ago I got my hands on the RTM DVD of Windows Vista and took the plunge. I installed Vista Ultimate on my production IBM Thinkpad T42p; 80GB HDD, 2GB RAM. I installed Vista into my Active Directory environment
Currently here is what I’ve got running, as well as a list of applications that are working for me:
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- Office 2007
- Firefox 2.0
- Novell GroupWise 7
- Open Office 2 Novell Edition
- Putty
- TextPad 4.7.3
- Adobe Creative Suite 2
- iTunes 7.0.2
- Microsoft Windows Live Writer
- Audacity
- WinISO 4.3
- WinZIP 9 SR1
- BulletProof FTP Client 2.59
- Symantec Anti Virus 10.2
- Freemind 0.8
- Nero 7 Ultra Edition
- Collanos Workplace 1.0.0.9
- Apple Airport Admin 4.2
- GLoSS
- GAIM 2 beta 5
- Skype 2.5
The only applications I’m having trouble with so far are
- Nortel Contivity VPN client
- VMware Workstation (Vista as host)
I found a couple of defects; Microsoft worked with me and got a fix for one:
- DHCP not receiving an OFFER packet - fix in KB article 928233
- Intermittent suspend/resume
The most annoying thing was the User Account Control - every action required confirmation. I’m a domain admin and local admin on the box; my own fault if I do something foolish. I turned off all of the UAC features within a few hours - just too in your face.
Next steps are to find the Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad tools for some of the key mappings; not essential. Also have another hack at the VPN client.
Usual disclaimer - some of the apps listed are not ’supported’. In fact I’m probably the only person testing Collanos Workplace on Vista 
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You can always use Microsoft Virtual PC. 2007 is in beta now and works nicely.
VMware Workstation 6 beta - works like a charm
Nice to see you reading the blog Patrick; how’s life?