[BBLISA] Journalist (me) seeking shortish quotes/info for "Windows 7 migration gotchas (and wins)" feature article for ITWorld

[Edward Ned Harvey]

I'll add a couple:

Edward Ned Harvey, of Lyric Semiconductor writes:

For some reason, Win7 CIFS access is 4x slower than it used to be in Win XP.
For some reason, nobody seems to notice it or care except me.  The problem
is not sustained throughput, but latency on per-file operations.

Aside from that, I absolutely love it!  RIP Win XP.  No regrets, no looking
back.  It feels like we've finally stepped out of the GUI dark ages from
hell.  All the new little features ... aero peek, snap, pin, jump lists, and
the new taskbar dock are immense improvements.

At last, 64bit has arrived.  It's available, it's compatible, it's stable.
There is no need for 32bit anymore.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Daniel Dern
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:54 AM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] Journalist (me) seeking shortish quotes/info for
> "Windows 7 migration gotchas (and wins)" feature article for ITWorld
> 
> 
> For a feature article on "Windows 7 migration gotchas (and wins)"
> I'm doing for ITWorld (www.ITWorld.com), I'm looking primarily for a
> few more IT sources (identified w/name/title/company, or fully
> or party anonymized, e.g. "YOURNAME, a sysadmin," or even
> "according to a grizzled sysadmin at a big midwestern free-range
> potato ranch").
> 
> By email and/or phone, ASAP (today or tomorrow, my deadline got
> away from me).
> 
> I need another 4-6 items, including "gotcha" surprises you've
> experienced, some of the more challenging problems you may
> have encountered... and hopefully a few things that went as
> anticipated (in a good way), perhaps even better (less badly) than
> anticipated, and (if there are any), one or two "wins" --
> expected/unexpected benefits.
> 
> We can do this by email, or by phone; basically, I'll need:
> 
> - Your name, title, company, URL and appositive (or anonymized
>    version, per above)
> - Scope of migration, e.g., "replacing 500 Win XP and Vista desktops
>    with 500 new machines running Win7," "upgrading 1,200 Win XP SP2
>    desktop to Win7, including RAM/HDD upgrades on about 25%, and
>    replacing 300 notebooks."
> - Gotcha, problem, etc
>    = Expected or unexpected
>    = Impact on IT and on general operations
>    = Solution
>    = Cost of solution (and how much was unanticipated)
>    = (How) could this problem have been avoided?  I.e., now that
>      you know, what would have have done differently?
> 
> - Benefits or other wins
>    = Expected or Unexpected
>    = Benefit
>    = Downside to the benefit?
> - Other advice, comments, complaints, criticisms.
> 
> I'll confirm your quote back to you by email, and when the
> article runs, will email you with the URL.
> 
> Again, email is fine; if we do it by phone, I doubt
> any chat will take more than 10 minutes.
> 
> I'm a free-lance technology writer, providing bylined articles
> and columns, as well as PR writing, editorial and consulting services,
> especially case histories, interviews, FAQs, OpEds, releases and
> feature articles.
> 
> FYI, here's links to my previous article for ITWorld:
>    <http://www.dern.com/artic.shtml#ITWorld>
> and other IT system/network management-oriented articles:
>    <http://www.dern.com/artic.shtml#Net+SysAdmin>
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Daniel P. Dern
> 617-969-7947
> dern at pair.com
> 
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