Marc Robins is having a hell of a time with Microsoft Windows Vista. Marc has encountered several problems - Everything from printer drivers to Second Life not working and Internet Explorer crashing. Vista performance issues also seem to be happening due to the upgrade and not installing Vista as a fresh installation. I used to be Marc's IT support guy when he worked directly with TMC (he's a consultant now), so maybe I'll email him off some suggestions to speed up his Windows Vista install. Check out his My Vista Experience Part 1 and 2.
I have an idea why his IE is crashing. Oh, and check out the rest of Marc's Beyond VoIP blog. He's been writing pretty copiously as of late, and as a fairly new TMC blogger, he surprisingly has tons of interesting articles - especially on home entertainment stuff, one of my favorite topics. I have to say - with Rich Tehrani, Greg Galitzine, Russell Shaw, Marc Robins, and myself, along with a few other TMCnet blogs, TMC probably has the strongest line-up of IP communications bloggers on the planet!
I have an idea why his IE is crashing. Oh, and check out the rest of Marc's Beyond VoIP blog. He's been writing pretty copiously as of late, and as a fairly new TMC blogger, he surprisingly has tons of interesting articles - especially on home entertainment stuff, one of my favorite topics. I have to say - with Rich Tehrani, Greg Galitzine, Russell Shaw, Marc Robins, and myself, along with a few other TMCnet blogs, TMC probably has the strongest line-up of IP communications bloggers on the planet!
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I was interested to see that your claim that Second Life doesn't work under Vista - I will be switching to Vista myself in the next month or so and had consulted the Secondlife site which does say that they have successfully run Secondlife under Vista.
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=304
Here's a copy of an email response from them about my issue:
Hi,
Thanks for your inquiry,
Unfortunately Windows Vista is not yet supported as mentioned in
knowledge base link I am including with this email.
(Yes, even though it still states that Vista has yet to be released):
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=304
We have are unable to give a time as to when the Second Life client will be
available for Windows Vista.
Regards,
Linden Lab
"Marc has encountered several problems - Everything from printer drivers to Second Life not working and Internet Explorer crashing."
I never thought I'd say this, but get a Mac :-)
When the OS is designed to run on the hardware, you don't have this type of trouble. Once you go Mac, you never go back.