Bob Caswell - Latest Comments in Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7

Re: Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7

bobcaswell — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:14:04 -0000

Thanks for info, Joe.

Re: Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7

joe — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:29:19 -0000

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.?

Re: Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7

mfratt — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:20:39 -0000

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.

Re: Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7

bobcaswell — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:47:56 -0000

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...

Re: Letter from IT Personnel at Purdue University: No Upgrades to Vista, Office 2007, or even IE7

Matt — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:15:19 -0000

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.