Windows Vista Update

Vista - the stree free way to compute

by Tamara Johnson
(Kansas City, Missouri USA)

I work at an insurance company. We're an independent agency, which means that basically we have to try and keep up with all of our policy holders and over 50 different Insurance companies as well. As you can imagine, this is not always easy to accomplish.

To add just a little extra wood to the fire so to speak, we are having extra trouble because we're short handed at the moment. Needless to say, everyone on the office is working non stop, and running flat out, pedal to the metal. Everyone is tired and stressed out, particularly my boss.

She owns the agency, and has to deal with all of the business details on top of being the primary agent in the office and taking care of her clients. She's the only agent that writes business accounts and half of her employees are x-family. Then, our computers started to need service, one right after the other for various reasons so she decided to go out and buy a new one.

She came back to the office with a new Vista computer. She had not used a Vista computer before, all the other computers in the office and at her home were programmed with Windows XP. She waited until after lunch to set it up, because she was certain that it was going to cause her a huge headache. She settled down to it, plugged it all in and started connecting it to the server and setting up all the links and files. When she got finished, she was genuinely stunned. She said, "I have never owned a computer that was so easy to set up." Then she went on to say that maybe she should replace all the office computer's with the Vista, and replace her personal home computer as well.

You earned a fan today, and on her behalf I wanted to thank you. The stress in our life has been so overwhelming of late that has been hard to appreciate anything. You took a little bit of that stress away today with the easy installation of your product, and for that we wanted to thank you.

I have a Vista laptop at home. I got it when they first came out and love using it. I took it on vacation with me this month. It rode along with me through 8 different states for a week and a half adventure.

One of my hobbies is photography and I love to take pictures of landscapes. Needless to say I was in High cotton driving from Missouri through Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas, and spending time in the Black Hills. We camped every night and explored everyday and there was always something to see.

I filled up my camera a lot and had to download it onto my computer every time I turned around, but it was really worth it to be able to take so many beautiful pictures. It helped keep everybody posing for more, and I didn't have to worry about the shot I might not be able to get later. My biggest photography worry was replacing the camera's batteries every time it needed more.

The computer came in very handy the day we were all stuck inside a tent while it rained cats and dogs for 36 hours, and then again at night, after the sun had set and we were settled in for the night, we would all play games together. (It really brought us together as a family, it was like it was when the kids were little and we all sat around playing board games together - which of course hasn't happened for quite sometime now since the kids are all teenagers, and / or grown.)We all laid around and watched some DVD's that I had brought along with me for the trip. We even planned out camping sites based on that laptop because he needed to make sure we had electricity so we could keep it charged up. Sometimes we were less comfortable because we were camped in a spot designed for an RV, but we were happier in spite of it just to have the extra luxury

I also used it for our accounting. Every time my Husband or my Father-in-law spent any money I logged the receipts into an Excel spreadsheet I had created for the trip to keep track of our spending. I think this trip may be the only trip in history that we've taken where we were able to set a spending limit and not accidently go over the budget. It was so handy to have that we've vowed to bring it with us on all of out trips from now on.

I used to think that televisions, cell phones and computers might be the end of family "togetherness". However I've learned that a family can always be together, they just have to take the time to figure out how to stay together and be happy with each other in their own way. Machines don't do that, people do that.