Michael; I would respectfully disagree with your position, and perhaps I may
have misquoted the conversation and I certainly took it out of out of
context. Let em try to clarify: In my view, this employee was doing his best
to help out a customer, given the paucity of information available to him.
I'd give him a raise.
Dan
"MICHAEL" wrote:
> <quote>
> he then unofficially indicated it might be wise to upgrade my Vista
> Home Premium to Business or Ultimate as they most probably would be more
> compatible with a "professional" product.
> </quote>
>
> That Microsoft employee should be fired for suggesting that.
>
>
> -Michael
>
> * Dan:
> > Scott:
> > SUCCESS!!!
> >
> > After much back and forth, and with thanks to "Smart
> > Computing" magazine's technical staff (they directed me to MSFT support, as
> > their sense was direct incompatability with Vista as being most probable), I
> > ended up last night speaking with 4 MSFT reps. The last, reading from the
> > "book", officially told me PP2003 is supposed to be compatible with all OS
> > after XP. he then unofficially indicated it might be wise to upgrade my Vista
> > Home Premium to Business or Ultimate as they most probably would be more
> > compatable with a "professional" product. As this would be a $245 upgrade I
> > elected not to do that.
> >
> > My company's IT guy then came up with a solution that WORKS! There's a
> > company called VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/download/) that offers a
> > product that will simulate an XP OS on your Vista machine. My IT guy gave me
> > a disk with a Reader and the desktop simulator (4 GB of material), which I
> > have
> > successfully installed and am up and running.
> >
> > BOTTOM LINE? Project Professional 2003 and Visio 2003 does not appear to be
> > compatible with Vista Home Premium (at least) at the present time. Positions
> > that disagree with this conclusion are cordially invited.
> >
> > PS: the MSFT guy indicated I should monitor this forum for any subsequent
> > patches that may be produced to solve this clear issue.
> >
> > Hope all this helps someone out there save the hours it took us (at least me
> > and Scott) to get here.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > "Dan" wrote:
> >
> >> You're welcome, Scott. Now, keep in mind, I am not a technical person, I'm a
> >> manager type, so whatever I now say should be taken accordingly. I was
> >> getting into a similar loop as you and have decided to uninstall PP and
> >> Visio. I then ran CC Cleaner (free software) to clean the registry and then
> >> Advanced System Optimizer for general principle. I next ran another free app
> >> (diskeeper) to defrag the page file and everything else.
> >>
> >> I am now back to a 'clean' position. I have emailed the folks at Smart
> >> Computing to see if they can come up with any solution. If that fails, I will
> >> next call Microsoft, as I am still within my 90 day window for free service
> >> calls.
> >>
> >> If all that produces any results, I'll be sure to post it here.
> >>
> >> Good luck, Buddy. we're in this together <g>!!
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >> "SCBlur" wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Dan. At least we know that this problem can be replicated across
> >>> machines, although it seems now that I'm paying the price for
> >>> troubleshooting.
> >>>
> >>> I uninstalled Office Small Business 2007 (OEM with the Dell) to see if
> >>> loading Visio and/or Project 2003 would load without it resident. When
> >>> that didn't work I reloaded Office during which the installer seems to
> >>> get stuck in a loop where it says it has to configure Office 2007 every
> >>> time I open one of the programs. To make matters worse it does the same
> >>> thing for each mail message I receive through Outlook! ARGH!!!!!!
> >>>
> >>> Microsoft can you PLEASE put out a product that isn't buggy? How can
> >>> Office 2007 - your latest and greatest - have install problems with
> >>> your latest OS?????
> >>>
> >>> I'm at wits end (short of reloading the entire system from scratch
> >>> which I'm really loathe to do).
> >>>
> >>> Dan? Anyone?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>>
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