DISQUS

Matt · 2 years ago

I think it's always been a common practice among large business / school to let others find the bugs and fix them before they upgrade. Some will get one or two systems and test them out but a complete upgrade usually doesn't happen until the product has been out for a few months. I attend Utah Valley State College and received a similar message at the end of the year stating almost the same things. As for myself I've been using IE 7 since it went public and haven't had really any problems or compatablity issues with any of the sites I visit.

Bob Caswell · 2 years ago

Thanks for the comment, Matt! I agree it's pretty normal, though Microsoft has already been through this cycle many times. As a billion dollar company, what's with silly issues like making backwards compatibility something not automatically set up?

Perhaps I'm a lone wolf expecting more out of Microsoft this time around...

mfratt · 2 years ago

I'm just glad they're gonna get these issues resolved by this summer. I'm off to Purdue next year, and I've been using Vista on my Thinkpad since November.

joe · 2 years ago

I work for Purdue Itap, and would hope that they would have differentiated between their ?student sector (the small portion) and their research faculty portion (Larger ?important section), @ Purdue there is one train of thought we are a business, students ?come second, and with this they are starting to implement user unfriendly technology ?delays towards students. Vista is already being developed for "business" use, after all ?Purdue has the 2nd most profitable research center of any college/university. However ?there is a growing opinion that they should rush the student development and deployment ?to work out the bugs faster for the research and business development, outdating student ?software and hardware that they will not fund the departments to replace.?

Bob Caswell · 2 years ago

Thanks for info, Joe.