weeee were upgrading to XP at work!

[otispunkmeyer]

vista should be out for SI's later this year and were just jumping into XP!

its understandable though, big business doesnt usually adopt till the last minute/know its gonna work

 

[thirdeye]

We still have more than a few PCs running Win2k

 

[sswingle]

We are looking forward to getting Vista here. Being in IT, we'll get it before anyone else in the company.

 

[ballmode]

Just in time for the upgrade for vista, WEEEE

your place of work FTL

 

[spherrod]

belated congratulations - out of interest, what are you upgrading from?

 

[Fausto]

We're doing the same thing here soon.

$5 says they fsck it up. :laugh:

 

[letdown427]

Were you? What made you stop?

 

[ViviTheMage]

thats good, its a huge difference from 2k (if thats what you were on).

we have had XP since ...long time. haha

 

[iamwiz82]

I know a number of places still running NT4. We are on 2000 and I've been playing with XP rollouts but it's not working out so well. For whatever reason, all of the XP laptops take between 5-15 minutes to logon to the domain, even though the DNS is correct. It's something to do with the wireless network, but I dunno what.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Fausto
We're doing the same thing here soon.

$5 says they fsck it up. :laugh:

a fsck before an OS install isn't a bad idea.

 

[kingtas]

I have been on service calls to a business that still loads a DOS program from a floppy.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Fausto
We're doing the same thing here soon.

$5 says they fsck it up. :laugh:

a fsck before an OS install isn't a bad idea.

I'm torn between laughing and recruiting the trout-slap ninjas for such a terrible joke. :laugh:

 

[j00fek]

we still have about 50% servers on 2k still

no vista here till 08-09 probibly

 

[y2kc]

We rolled out XP in 02. what a blast that was. I don't forsee a Vista rollout here though.

 

[Patt]

We're just in the process of an XP rollout as well ... too bad most of our machines only have 256 MB of memory and are pig-dog slow. I'm involved more on the application development/implementation side of things, but it seems to be going OK. Upgrading from Win2K at last.

 

[Joemonkey]

most of our PCs here are 2k, about 80% anyway. There isn't any real compelling reason to jump to XP...

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
most of our PCs here are 2k, about 80% anyway. There isn't any real compelling reason to jump to XP...

Exactly. We have the same here.
2k is just as stable, just as versitile. Why spend the time and money to switch? 2k has, and will serve us fine for a long time. The only XP machines we are getting are expansion or replacement machines.

 

[Pacemaker]

Welcome to 2001, glad you finally made it.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
most of our PCs here are 2k, about 80% anyway. There isn't any real compelling reason to jump to XP...

Exactly. We have the same here.
2k is just as stable, just as versitile. Why spend the time and money to switch? 2k has, and will serve us fine for a long time. The only XP machines we are getting are expansion or replacement machines.

We are finally running into the issue of software not supporting Win2k. Solidworks 2007, for example.

 

[Homerboy]

We are finally running into the issue of software not supporting Win2k. Solidworks 2007, for example.

true there are exceptions. and for those the upgrades should be done.
But the the upgrading to XP for the sake of upgrading to XP is simply stupid in the small to medium sized office spaces.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

We are finally running into the issue of software not supporting Win2k. Solidworks 2007, for example.

true there are exceptions. and for those the upgrades should be done.
But the the upgrading to XP for the sake of upgrading to XP is simply stupid in the small to medium sized office spaces.

I agree with that.

 

[jimbob200521]

Heck, we still have a couple Windows 98 machine running where I work. But the majority is XP.

Welcome to the XP Work family OP

 

[cessna152]

Hopefully it goes smoothly. We spent a good year planning/testing for our XP Rollout. Most users didn't even notice the change

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: cessna152
Hopefully it goes smoothly. We spent a good year planning/testing for our XP Rollout. Most users didn't even notice the change

That's a good sign surely? No complaints or issues must have made it a lot easier.

 

[trmiv]

We still have A LOT of 2000 workstations. All new deployments, or any reimages we do are now XP though. When you have the number of PC's we do across an organization, as well as a massive number of apps, it's not that easy to switch to a new OS.