Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Windows 7 ... finally


I was disappointed when I can't get the Lotus Notes running on the RC1 of Windows 7 as per my previous posting. Well, not anymore. I had been running Win7 with Lotus Notes 8.5 flawlessly for almost 4 weeks (August 13, 2009) since Win7 first available as RTM on MSDN. Lucky me :) have access to MSDN subscription!

I had changed from DELL D630 to a soup up E6400 with all the bells and whistles. Having 4GB RAM gives you the peace you need whenever you fire up multiple apps all the same time. Interestingly, it is not as resource hungry as its predecessor.


Nevertheless, I still face some challenges with the IE8. It keeps giving the application error whenever it feels like it and frankly, I have no clue at all of what causes these errors. But, I have to admit, MS had done a greater job this time. Although the error dialog box appears, it has never even once, closes the IE or a tab or restarting the app. This is a vast improvement from the past.



Symantec EndPoint 12, on the other hand, was barely working as it is not fully updated to support Win7. Win7 keeps alerting the status of SEP although it is working. I can't recall which messsage, but it was reported that ...




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