andy_nic Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) Were slowly moving to windows 7, some machines/rooms will only be done when machines are replaced as they are 6 years old now and struggle with Windows XP and programs which are used on them. But were about 30-40% Windows 7 rest being Windows XP Edited January 21, 2011 by andy_nic
3s-gtech Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 I was more meaning being alarmed if it wasnt x64 or x86! Oh - yeah we use both, not tied to either. That or I have a RISC build of Windows 7 somewhere...
PiqueABoo Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Decisions.. decisions... I haven't kept up with this, but I think quite a few folk expect to see the next Windows in 2012... so if you kept it for another year would you really want to go to Window 7 when 8 (or whatever they call it) is just around the corner? XP drivers for new kit is certainly an issue and (strictly anecdotally) they seem to be falling away in portability order i.e. netbooks appear to be the worst, then laptops, then PCs. But if I wasn't likely to need lots of brand new boxes in the next year, and especially if I'd bought select licences, then I don't think I could put up a serious business case for upgrading. What will Win7 it do for your organisation in the next year or maybe two that XP doesn't? Run IE9 maybe - and is that so compelling? I suppose MS may hit us with a few more bits that only work on Win 7+ though.. an equivalent of the W2K killing dotNet 2.0.
SimpleSi Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Never believe MS end-of -life announcements - they always change except for one of them but you can';t tell in advance which one will turn out to be true Win98 support ended centuries ago - I still have a virtual machine running as a file server quite happily in one of my schools (never had the time to move the files onto the w2k3 replacement and IINBDFI ) so who cares if MS support ends. Si
dwhyte85 Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) On fat? I'm guessing no permissions are needed and they're all trustworthy! Edited January 21, 2011 by dwhyte85
featured_spectre Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 If any headteachers have issues with installing W7, feel free to come to my school and have a look at it working!
john Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 All Windows 7 here. No major problems, most of the smaller ones where sorted during testing. Actually thinking going Win 7 x64 due to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 being x64 only. That was the exact reason we moved. We originally planned to move this coming summer, but then along came Adobe CS5 and our need for Premier Pro and them saying its Vista X64 or 7 X64 so obviously I spent many nano-seconds pondering that decision and we had to bring forward the Win7 roll out to this summer just gone. Went rather well, just not advisable to build 2 new IT rooms, tart up 3 rooms, build an entire new Virtual Network and all the other daft things we did over the summer as you just end up shattered when you get back and things are rather hectic! Windows 7 however has been bliss and I couldn't ask for a better product. Over half our machines are 64 bit machines, basically if it will take it, it gets 64 bit on it
SimpleSi Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 On fat?{/quote] What sort of neathandertal do you think i am???? FAT32 of course I'm guessing no permissions are needed and they're all trustworthy! Yes and yes (Primary - single user logon with full admin rights and no password -save a lot of work ) Si
SimpleSi Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 Windows 7 however has been bliss and I couldn't ask for a better product. Have you taken up smoking neffarious substances since last week or do you not run BlackCat Super Tools Surely you must have had to ditch some beloved 16 bit educational package in the move? Si
Norphy Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 The words "Beloved" and "16 bit educational package" do not belong in the same sentence!
CAM Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 The words "Beloved" and "16 bit educational package" do not belong in the same sentence! Tell that to Capita.
sparkeh Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 Goddamn Blackcat Super Tools! Wash your mouth out
mac_shinobi Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 We moved to the schools agreement about a year and a half ago, so windows 7 was a nobrainer for us. Over the summer (xmas) holidays we have pretty much upgraded everything to windows 7, with the exception of the Finance dept and related computers who will move over slowly and carefully.. Need to make sure you get paid !!!
rh91uk Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 We use a Vanilla based network with Windows 7 since the summer and it has been pretty flawless actually *touch wood*
dwhyte85 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 We use a Vanilla based network with Windows 7 since the summer and it has been pretty flawless actually *touch wood* How did your SLT embrace the step forward?
rh91uk Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 We are quite lucky actually, they were really behind it and encouraged it as it was a *need to be done*. We had just put in a new network aswell and we saw that, by having a cutting edge network (Juniper based switching) , we needed cutting edge technology and software too - so we rolled out W7 over XP, brought a lot of new computers to replace aging ones and also rolled out near enough 80 thin clients. Oh, and we started Electronic Reigstration this year too and moved them to Office 2010. Won't be doing any big changes for a while, though
gshaw Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 From the people that moved over, any little glitches \ gotchas to be aware of when migrating e.g. - is folder redirection all OK now (provided you use the newer GPOs) as I remember that was a bit glitchy early on - what did you do with the Libraries feature, are people still using that reg hack to turn it off or is there a better way now?
zag Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 I notice no one mentioned having vista lol. I gave it a go but couldn't get libraries to be locked down properly. I'm sure its something small but I didn't bother with a full rollout because of this. Most teachers do have windows 7 on new machines though. I'll probably wait for the next version of windows to be released. No point in doing windows 7 then windows 8 again in 2 years. I tend to work on a 5-10 year cycle here
ReverentCreature Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 We have a lot of PCs and laptops that are running XP quite happily and do the job they're needed for but are probably too old for Windows 7. I think you'll be very suprised. Windows 7 is streamlined, does not require high specification computer and runs on some of our oldest computers quite well. All we needed was some RAM. In fact some computers booted up quicker when when they were XP! Have a tinker around with one to get the right drivers and you'll be sorted.
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