From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.25] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.25] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 769266 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:09:11 -0500 Message-ID: <45BF6DAB.7030204@2rosenthals.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:09:15 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070124 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: OT: OS upgrades (was: Re: OT: broadband connection issues) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/30/07 12:04 am, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote : > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:40:32 -0700, Will Honea wrote: > > >> Lew, Toshiba told me today that they would ship my "free upgrade" to Vista by >> the weekend. Is that the same as turning a new virus loose on the net . >> > > fwiw, I'm reading online that running an actual upgrade to Vista is very iffy..one article > is called "Vista upgrade: Brace yourself for 'nightmare'" and things like the real cost of > the Vista upgrade coupons.... > > http://weblog.infoworld.com/dbunderground/archives/2006/09/i_realize_this.html > http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=264452 > http://www.startribune.com/154/story/871252.html > http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003020.html > http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/003385.html > > Considering how rough a Warp 4 to eCS upgrade can be, we don't have much of an edge on them. I was lucky with the few NT 4 -> W2K upgrades we did; everything came over pretty much as expected, with the usual kinks (drivers, mostly). That said, I'm not a fan of upgrading, unless it's NetWare. Even then, there are some file system changes which can complicate matters. Of course, for Windows users, considering the standard M$ line about "reinstall the operating system" to correct even the most minor errors, a clean install should come as no surprise. Good links, Stan. Thanks for sending them. Wil, good point. Good point, indeed!! :-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------