If he's willing to trade in his tablet for one with Vista on it then he may
as well just do a clean install of Vista if he has it.

The driver situation shouldn't be bad since the OEM supports Vista on it.

(By the way, Vista comes with a virtually unchanged version of Windows
Journal.)

--
Josh Einstein (Tablet PC MVP)
Einstein Technologies
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook - Try it free: www.tabletoutlook.com


"shysong" <shysong@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:461C9CA2-54EB-4B47-8B99-908E161EBE36@microsoft.com...
> This may not be the answer you want to hear -- but if your tablet is just
> a
> couple of months old, see if you can return it and get one with Vista on
> it.
> Every experience I've had suggests that you don't want to go through the
> hell
> of upgrading an operating system. The only time I have upgraded an OS was
> after a complete hard drive crash -- I had to go out and buy a new hard
> drive
> for my computer anyway, so I took that opportunity to upgrade from Windows
> ME
> to XP. In fact, we just got upgraded at my office to XP (don't you just
> love
> the government? Always an OS behind...), and essentially they gave me a
> new
> (though not faster) machine, copied all my old files from the My Documents
> folder, installed all the old programs on the new machine, and wiped the
> hard
> drive of the old machine so they could install XP and give it to someone
> else. So if the IT guys aren't willing to go through OS upgrade hell, I
> wouldn't do it either.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> "hairymon" wrote:
>
>> My boss a Lenovo X60t tablet here in the Office. He bought it with XP
>> Tablet
>> instead of Vista because he was used to XP Tablet and Vista had just come
>> out
>> and we didn't want to deal with all the bugs, etc. as he was also going
>> to
>> use it when in the office with a docking station as a workstation to our
>> Small Business 2003 network. Also, he is used to Windows Journal and I
>> had
>> learned that Vista doesn't come with that (though I'm wondering if I read
>> wrong). The reason he likes Windows Journal is what he wants to do is do
>> a
>> few pages of writing, then do the text conversion on the whole thing (but
>> since he's not satisfied with how Journal/XP does it he actually has his
>> secretary transcribe it). I've showed him how he can go right into MS
>> Office,
>> and as he writes each line, can do the text conversion, but he wants to
>> as I
>> said do a whole document in writing and then convert it.
>>
>> However, he (and I) have learned that there are some advantages to Vista
>> on
>> a tablet; mainly that it "learns" your handwriting.
>>
>> Since it is several months since Vista is out, I'm willing to re-explore
>> it.
>> Here are my questions:
>>
>> 1) What version of Vista would I get? (My guess is Business)
>>
>> 2) How easy is it to upgrade a tablet that currently has XP Tablet to
>> Vista?
>> Will anything typical "tablet things" suddenly not function?
>>
>> 3) Does Windows Journal exist in Vista? If not, does the fact that I have
>> it
>> on there now mean that it will work with a Vista upgrade? If someone
>> wants to
>> do an entire document in writing and then convert it after the fact, what
>> do
>> they use if Journal does not exist in Vista? I'm guessing OneNote, but
>> given
>> what it normally costs to buy that I don't think that just comes with
>> Vista,
>> right?
>>
>> 4) Finally, any problems using the tablet in the office with a Small
>> Business 2003 network?
>>
>> Any help would be much, much appreciated, thanks!