Every cloud has a silver lining

I have my file server all up and running. It's been clensed and I've weeded out any software that I didn't own so I could have a clean conscience to go with my clean machine. The good news in all of this is that I caught one of the drives before it completely died and I was able to get everything back where it should be.

I took one of the empty drives and I'm in the process of installing Windows Vista RC1 to see if my machine can handle it. I've heard it's pretty stable and from everything I've seen it looks very slick. The new office 2007 suite won't work on it yet, and I have no idea if my other application services will work in the Vista environment.

So far, I've got it up and going and it seems to run reasonably well with the hardware and software I've got. The interface is great, the new security is great, and it's much more of an OSX based paradigm.

Tags: Windows Vista RC1