NAGers:

 

Vista: I’ve been running Vista full-time on my workstation for nearly a year.  We were planning on rolling out Vista by now, or at least in the Spring.  As things look now, no way.  I seriously doubt we’ll do it even in the Spring.  Like others, I’ll wait  until M$ “finishes writing it” and especially, the software and hardware vendors catch up to it.  Just a month or two ago I looked into several statistical packages we use and one of three I looked at ran on Vista.  PalmOne is still only in beta with Vista as of yesterday (I checked, yet again), I’ve had problems with HP inkjet drivers and Maxtor One-Touch backup software (which is still totally broken, even after a new release)  Until vendor support catches up and stabilizes, we will not be going Vista.

 

User on it so far: 1

Expected by end of Spring semester: 1

 

Office 2007: I’ve been on it for 6 months now and still find it super annoying.  I don’t know who these people are that say they learned it quickly.  Roughly once a week I spend ~5-20 minutes looking for some stupid, simple function that I’ve known how to find for over 10 years.  I always try to find it myself first, it is “easier to use!”, of course, but I usually end up resorting to searching for it in the Help.  No users have it yet and when asked about it, I show them the ribbon and so far all have said “no thanks”, though I’d let anyone have it if requested.  We have pushed out the compatibility pack, and that appears to have slowed requests for the product.  I’ll quietly try and skip it entirely, if possible, as I don’t see a need.  Some faculty will want the new “pretty” (and more distracting) 3D graphs, however, so I expect requests to come in from that eventually.

 

User on it so far: 0

Expected by end of Spring semester: perhaps half-dozen to dozen