I know this is a little thing, but it’s about time (pun intended). If you install Vista, set your time zone, Windows does the rest. Apparently Microsoft has a time.windows.com server that it goes to at a preset interval (that you can change) and synchronizes your time with it’s server. Nice touch.
I have been running Windows Vista Enterprise on my laptop for about a month and a half and I can say that I have not really encountered any big problems. I had one issue with Firefox that required a re-install. Even though I was told my Verizon cellular modem software would not work, I decided to be sneaky and try anyway…works fine.
Office 07 is very nice, I already like it quite a bit. I have become pretty fond of the sidebar widgets too. I have one up for my CPU and Memory usage, one for hard disk usage, a quicklaunch bar for launching command line stuff, weather, Digg stories and a WiFi signal meter. I would add the battery meter but I couldn’t tell you the last time I ran this thing for longer than 15 minutes on the battery.
Even though it’s quite similar to iPhoto, the photo library software is very nice. I am looking forward to getting my hands on Windows Vista Ultimate next week and seeing what else it has to offer.
If you have any questions about Vista or Office 07, drop me a comment and I will be glad to test something or let you know how it acts.
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windows xp has had time sync to time.windows.com and im pretty sure 2000 has it too.
Must be something I have to enable somewhere, I do not see it anywhere on the time control panel applet.
I noticed this recently as well (though I think XP SP2 might have had it as well). I’ve got a tip on my site on how to see if your time is in sync, and how to sync up your time if it’s not syncing correctly:
http://itsvista.com/2007/01/itsvista-tip-17-is-your-vista-on-internet-time-mine-wasnt/
windows xp comes with automated time sync enabled by default. windows 2000 can do that too. but it requires some small app which can be downloaded from any larger downloadsite.