notes2w.exe) When I got it up and running, I pinned the program icon to the taskbar, which turned out to be the notes2w.exe process, and Notes subsequently gave me that error message when I tried to start it from there. Update: The first version of Lotus Notes that officially supports Windows 7 is release 8.5.1 Fixpack 1. But beware if you want to edit a picture, watch a video or play a simple card game! So in conclusion, Lotus Notes 8.5, Sametime, Symphony, Quickr and Portal all work fine on Windows 7 Beta 1 on a three year old computer. Despite a slow start with Notes 8.0 the performance optimisation in 8.0.2 and 8.5 is really impressive. Specifically, they have used a Thinkpad T30 which is over 5 years old to ensure that performance would be fine. I happen to know that IBM Lotus Quality Engineering always test out latest software on older hardware. I also checked out the Lotus Symphony editors and they all worked faultlessly.Īll in all you would have to conclude that Windows 7 is a massive improvement on Vista.
As you can see, Lotus Sametime also works brilliantly as well. It installed a treat and after I copied my bookmarks, workspace (OK I'm occasionally old school) and ID file it was like working on my main PC. The first thing I installed was Lotus Mobile Connect to get VPN access to IBM's internal systems. Impressive although nothing you wouldn't expect from a Mac or Ubuntu.īut the big question is does Lotus Software work on it? The answer is a resounding yes. Within a couple of reboots it was recognising my Wireless Lan, Graphics Card and the other computers on my network. It is clearly a step up from Vista both in terms of stability and performance.įrom downloading the code (over 2GB) to burning it onto a DVD to installing it onto my venerable Thinkpad only took a few short hours. With the launch of the Windows 7 Beta1 I thought I would try the same test again.
I quickly reverted to using Windows XP again. Whist the operating system did install it was pretty much incapable of doing anything useful. When I first tried installing Windows Vista I used a Thinkpad T41.
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