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 770500 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:41:49 -0500 Message-ID: <45BFBB9F.1000705@2rosenthals.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:41:51 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070124 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]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 01:43 pm, Doug LaRue thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Will Honea" on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:13:32 -0700 > > > >> The cost of updating >> one of the clients (a small church) to Vista is prohibitive when you factor in >> all the associated programs that will also need updating. Office2000 to >> Office2007 for them is eye-watering! >> > > > The worth thing about this "new OS" is that customers will find it difficult to NOT > get the product on a new computer and that infection will cost extra. At the > very least, they'll have to pay to purchase and install the version/OS they are > currently standardized on. Can you say, 'thank you sir, may I have another'? :-/ > > I had lunch wth a client today who is researching new laptops (he's a Windows user). He discovered this past weekend that BestBuy is apparently "upgrading" in-stock machines to Vista (you know, just becasue the sticker says "Ready for Vista" doesn't really mean that it's "ready for Vista"...). I think M$, concerned by the poor adoption of Windows retail and upgrade licenses during the XP rollout phase, has taken a stronger position on pushing Vista onto new hardware. Still, when we have clients who require Windows, we use W2K Pro. I don't see a real change in that strategy for some time to come. Heck, I can still get new DOS licenses if I need them... Closer to topic: Has anyone heard of any better built-in Wi-Fi management in Vista vs XP? I was never able to effectively manage Wi-Fi connections for clients' machines using the built-in manager in XP (Access Connections is the killer app on ThinkPads running Windows, hands down). I'm interested to see if there are any features there (in Vista's Wi-Fi profile mangement) which may be of interest to Christian for XWLAN (see how we can bring a non-OS/2 topic back on track?). :-) -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------