Vista Installation freeze up issue a major problem for Microsoft..

If you google around, you'll see this issue is very widespread. I don't
understand why Microsoft has not provided the solution to this issue yet as
it is costing them licenses.

I did a Vista demo during a board meeting for my Executive staff that was
interested in seeing Vista in action. The install froze during the final
steps as most users have seen when "finalizing installation" is highlighted.
Unfortunately the board members saw it as well and scrapped the whole Vista
upgrade plan. Our consultant also told us that he, like many other admins,
have suggested companies steer clear from Vista. In a nutshell, I write this
to let you know, if you already didn't, that Microsoft is in big trouble on
Vista. I do appreciate all the hard work MIcrosoft has made on Vista, though
I feel in the end Microsoft will take a bath on Vista and it will be less
successful than XP by any measure.......

The CAT wrote:
> If you google around, you'll see this issue is very widespread. I don't
> understand why Microsoft has not provided the solution to this issue yet as
> it is costing them licenses.
>
> I did a Vista demo during a board meeting for my Executive staff that was
> interested in seeing Vista in action. The install froze during the final
> steps as most users have seen when "finalizing installation" is highlighted.
> Unfortunately the board members saw it as well and scrapped the whole Vista
> upgrade plan. Our consultant also told us that he, like many other admins,
> have suggested companies steer clear from Vista. In a nutshell, I write this
> to let you know, if you already didn't, that Microsoft is in big trouble on
> Vista. I do appreciate all the hard work MIcrosoft has made on Vista, though
> I feel in the end Microsoft will take a bath on Vista and it will be less
> successful than XP by any measure.......

The rule of thumb in companies I'm familiar with is: Don't install MS
software in a production environment until SP1. The huge corporation
where I work is still running Win2000 desktops -- dunno about servers.

Sadly for the rest of us, this attitude means that MS is deprived of
important feedback from expert IT departments which could actually help
MS fix critical bugs *earlier*. "Why should I risk my business helping
MS debug their products? That's what I pay them for!"

So -- I'm willing to help MS fix bugs, but they won't listen to me even
when I'm right. Just like my wife.

"Don" <> wrote in message
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> The CAT wrote:
>> If you google around, you'll see this issue is very widespread. I don't
>> understand why Microsoft has not provided the solution to this issue yet
>> as
>> it is costing them licenses.
>>
>> I did a Vista demo during a board meeting for my Executive staff that was
>> interested in seeing Vista in action. The install froze during the final
>> steps as most users have seen when "finalizing installation" is
>> highlighted.
>> Unfortunately the board members saw it as well and scrapped the whole
>> Vista
>> upgrade plan. Our consultant also told us that he, like many other
>> admins,
>> have suggested companies steer clear from Vista. In a nutshell, I write
>> this
>> to let you know, if you already didn't, that Microsoft is in big trouble
>> on
>> Vista. I do appreciate all the hard work MIcrosoft has made on Vista,
>> though
>> I feel in the end Microsoft will take a bath on Vista and it will be less
>> successful than XP by any measure.......
>
> The rule of thumb in companies I'm familiar with is: Don't install MS
> software in a production environment until SP1. The huge corporation
> where I work is still running Win2000 desktops -- dunno about servers.
>
> Sadly for the rest of us, this attitude means that MS is deprived of
> important feedback from expert IT departments which could actually help
> MS fix critical bugs *earlier*. "Why should I risk my business helping
> MS debug their products? That's what I pay them for!"
>
> So -- I'm willing to help MS fix bugs, but they won't listen to me even
> when I'm right. Just like my wife.

We have not upgraded to Vista in my organization but we will go through 6-12
months of testing on various configurations before we do.

No offense, but if I were presenting to the executive team I would've done 3
or 4 test installations on the machine the day before. And, if the
executive team expects an OS without problems and makes knee-jerk reactions
based on one failed demo, hmm...

Pulling the plug based on 1 failed install in a demo tells me their minds
were already made up before the demo. Or they are in denial about the real
world and IT.

Art