Comments on: Will Microsoft ever admit that Vista was a bad idea? http://www.sowrey.org/2007/10/will-microsoft-ever-admit-that-vista-was-a-bad-idea/ A miscellany of know-it-all-isms by Geoff Sowrey Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:27:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tom http://www.sowrey.org/2007/10/will-microsoft-ever-admit-that-vista-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-3486 Tom Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:55:13 +0000 http://www.sowrey.org/2007/10/04/will-microsoft-ever-admit-that-vista-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-3486 When I started contracting for the guys in London, I went out and bought myself a smokin' new machine with dual monitors and.....Vista...the home premium package. What a mistake. The secure network I have to log onto will not accept the Vista operating system, and there are no plans in the near future to change that. How did I get around this you ask? Well....I had to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, because the home premium package does not include a lot of features. Which feature was I looking for? - Virtual PC!! That's right, with Vista Ultimate you can run another operating system on your computer within Vista. I loaded up Windows 2000 as a Virtual PC and now I connect to work through my Virtual PC on my Vista machine. Now one monitor is my Vista OS where I can do my daily surfing of sowrey.org and the other monitor is Win2K where I do my work. I have cursed Windows Vista ever since the day I turned it on, but at least the Virtual PC is a rose amongst all the thorns :) When I started contracting for the guys in London, I went out and bought myself a smokin’ new machine with dual monitors and…..Vista…the home premium package. What a mistake. The secure network I have to log onto will not accept the Vista operating system, and there are no plans in the near future to change that.

How did I get around this you ask? Well….I had to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, because the home premium package does not include a lot of features.

Which feature was I looking for? – Virtual PC!! That’s right, with Vista Ultimate you can run another operating system on your computer within Vista. I loaded up Windows 2000 as a Virtual PC and now I connect to work through my Virtual PC on my Vista machine. Now one monitor is my Vista OS where I can do my daily surfing of sowrey.org and the other monitor is Win2K where I do my work.

I have cursed Windows Vista ever since the day I turned it on, but at least the Virtual PC is a rose amongst all the thorns :)

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