Is the upgrade that awful? We've actually had it since December so I don't
think we could turn it in and all. If we were to try the upgrade, what
version of Vista should we get? Would the upgrade include the improved
Journal?

"Josh Einstein" wrote:

> 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
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>
> "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!
>
>