Brian

Microsoft extends XP sales (Download Squad)

Sep 28th 2007 1:04PM I also bought Vista for home and work immediately upon release. I'm generally happy with it at home, but I've gone back and forth at work. I manage 3,000 desktops and 100 servers so not being able to use all of the MS management tools on Vista is a massive inconvenience. I've done the "hacks" to get the 2003 SP1 admin pack working but all of the snap-ins still don't run. I need to leave a virtual machine running XP up all day or run the programs as published apps from Citrix. I finally reinstalled XP at work last weekend and I'm planning on leaving it on for the foreseeable future. It's great to have all of programs running properly again.

As a side note, I'm not planning on deploying Vista anywhere at work for at least another year. When we buy new machines, we purchase a Vista license and then reinstall XP Pro with our volume license.