[senit] Vista compatability

Im going to walk a middle ground here as ever

so  what is the additional multimedia functionality of
ultimate over business edition? what is the windows
media centre aspect of the former?
what is the VR module and what kind of needs can it
meet?
david

--- David Banes <david.banes at abilitynet.org.uk> wrote:

> Im going to walk a middle ground here as ever 
> 
> I really want to warn against making gross over
> generalisations re Vista
> - it has some real benefits to those with SEN not
> least of all the VR
> module is effective and can help with a wide range
> of needs
> 
> Ive seen Vista rolled out successfully in many
> places - but you need to
> consider carefully which version of Vista you want -
> I upgraded Business
> to Ultimate because the additional multimedia
> functionality and
> applications like DVD maker were beneficial to me  
> 
> Upgrades on current systems are always more
> difficult - but I would take
> care not to confuse issues with upgrades with issues
> with OEM builds -
> the issues are often different
> 
> We've run a series of workshops this year on Vista
> and our own team use
> two partitions one with Vista + Office 2007 and one
> with XP with 2003 -
> both are valuable at different times 
> 
> Well be running more Vista workshops and courses in
> 2008 do watch out
> for them 
> 
> David Banes
> Director of Development
> AbilityNet 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of Alex Hammerstein
> Sent: 05 December 2007 09:46
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [senit] Vista compatability
> 
> I can vouch for this - even though our laptops were
> high spec.  We have
> just
> ripped Vista off of them all and reverted to good
> ol' XP pro!!
> 
> Think I shall wait for SP2 to be released before
> returning to Vista
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of David Colven
> Sent: 05 December 2007 09:41
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [senit] Vista compatability
> 
> Most of the commentaries that I have read warn
> against putting Vista on
> a 
> laptop unless it is a very high spec. one.
> 
> They end up very slow, some taking up to 4 minutes
> to boot.
> 
> David
> 
> At 08:35 05/12/07, you wrote:
> >hi, with regard to getting school laptops with
> vista
> >on , i have been told that vista business edition
> is
> >the best version. .............
> >
> >
> >
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