Here at work everybody is fed up with Vista by its own "merits".  I 
didn't even need to advocate Linux. :)

6 years in the making for a horrid tragedy as far as TI infrastructure 
go.  Yesterday a guy was installing printer drivers in the machines.  It 
got installed in 3 and then stopped going on, he simply wasn't able to 
continue the installation.  I don't know the details, still just one of 
lots of inexplicable issues with a hurried migration where someone 
probably received some good amount...

Many problems seem to be related to nationality settings.  Even though 
it's set to pt-br here, many apps seem to prefer the english language or 
something with mixed results.  For instance, IE7 doesn't seem to find 
some documents when opening them:  I go through the file dialog, select 
the document and it gives a message that d:\users\foo\img.png doesn't 
exist.  In pt-br that path is written differently as 
d:\Usuarios\foo\img.png.  I think that lies the problem.  Yes, they 
actually gone insane on the translations and I guess it frakked up the 
system.  Oh, they do also translate the Excel functions, sum -> soma etc...

Sadly, they are on the hope that Windows 7 will fix everything.  On a 
side note, open-source advocating has never been stronger here and 
several tools are being seriously considered to replace the eternal 
cycle of forced upgrades.  There are people analyzing substitutes for 
Visual Studio (the Express version don't cut it, but it seems 
SharpDevelop will get a green light) and Java presence is getting 
stronger (sadly).

IE8 is a lot better than IE ever was, even standards compliant (which is 
really more important than being zippy).  It's too late, too little, 
though...

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