joem

Not had any problems here either. We've installed lots of Office 2003 on Vista and never had an issue... If you're sure it's not a dodgy disk and there's nothing else running in the background, it looks like you've got an internet trawl for error codes on your hands. The "mapisvc" is part of Outlook and Exchange stuff, if you don't need Outlook try unchecking it in the custom install and see if it works. Otherwise it's Google for you! Good luck!

Wow! Someone is actually using Vista Business in their school (according to the poll) If that person who voted "Business" was you - What was the motivation to switch to Vista? Have you had many problems? (a bit Off topic, I guess...) Meanwhile - thanks all for your responses so far, JoeM

Cheers for the link Webman, We were really wondering if anybody at all was actually using Vista in earnest yet. As for the developers issue - That's outside my sphere of influence! However we also test lots of web and browser-based applications, and the range of browsers, platforms and plug-ins multiplied by the ever-increasing security options means that even the web-based solution present a complex set of cross-compatibility options, and making something work on everything is a hefty challenge. Products that launch office applications, for example, behave quite differently with Vista and Office2007 - a fair few things just don't work at all. Still, at least it's never dull! JoeM

Hi all, I work for a test house who deal with lots of educational software developers. People are asking us more and more what versions of Vista schools are using. From research, our gut feel is that probably almost no schools are using it (yet), and probably Business or Enterprise versions if anything. Are any / many schools actually using Vista (apart from that machine in your office with Ultimate and if so which ones? Thanks all, JoeM