Originally Posted By Labuda Well, I'm still sick (it's been an entire WEEK now, but I'm FINALLY taking a day off today because of it), but thanks to my employer, I'm having fun while trying desperately to not cough up a lung. How so, you ask? Easy, I've just upgraded to Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Ultimate FOR FREE as part of our partnership with Microsoft. And yes, it's 100% legal. Man, oh MAN this is cool! I plan to have Eric take my computer for a spin this evening and over the next couple of days, just so he can see how groovy this OS is. I love the sidebar - love it, love it, love it! Also think the new search feature is wayy cool, I love the Aero stuff, and I'm amazed that my 3 year old PC (somethng like that I think) actually has a base score of 2.6 - I was sure it'd be lower since my CPU is only 1.73 GHz, but it's actually my graphics card (a 256 meg Geforce 5200) that's keeping me down at 2.6. Anyhow, yay for my company & MS loving us enough to offer free MSDN subscriptions to us.
Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, also doesn't hurt that I get 4 weeks vacation, 2 weeks worth of sick days, plus the 11 holidays we get. As far as I know, that's DARNED impressive for an American company.
Originally Posted By goodgirl I bought a Dell a couple months ago and it came with an upgrade to Vista. It says I have until March 31 to go download it. The only problem is that I have an HP digital camera, HP scanner and my nice photo color printer that arn't supported. All are only one to three years old. Interestingly, my six year old inkjet printer will supposedly work. So, what's a girl to do? Labuda, do you know if I download the Vista upgrade, I can "save" it as a file(s) or is it going to do an actual install?
Originally Posted By Labuda Hoo boy, goodgirl. I'm honestly not sure. You know my work email address, right? If so, shoot me an email at work and I'll be able to remember to ask around when I get back, or the next time I remote in...
Originally Posted By Tiggirl <<I love my employer!!!>> I truly wish I could say the same for mine. ~Beth
Originally Posted By avromark Goodgirl check HP regularly for updates/drivers and you'll eventually see it. And since we know what field you work in, buy a second hard drive, install the Express upgrade to it and voila a dual boot (That's what I did). Then when everything works with Vista (a matter of time) you can get rid of XP and have a hard drive dedicated for storage. Remember the same driver problem (not everything works right away) happened when XP first came out.
Originally Posted By avromark Beth - work for Mark's employer I love it now that I'm back with the employer I liked (the other hospital system is very cliquey but when I graduated my current/old one didn't have any jobs open). Life will eventually do you right there Bothy.
