The following follow-up or comment was just received on my recent article or articles on Windows 7 where related to marine vessels.

(My reply: Absolutely I’ll look into setting you up with a user account to be able to comment here on my blog. I’ve worked with your company before when working onboard motor yachts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida - and it has always been a pleasure working with your techs and staff on the telephone. And thanks a whole lot for writing me via email.)

 Hi Alan,

First, can I obtain access to your login to leave comments on your blog?

Second, I enjoyed your article on the marine world upgrading to Window 7 and how in the past it was a very large concern due to compatibility with Hardware on the vessel and running the special software to support those hardware devices. Just wanted to add that we see the same with our installation of equipment on vessel but have noticed an improvement with two satellite owners. With the new generation of the Inmarsat and Iridium terminals (FleetBroadBand and Iridium Open Port) the hardware manufactures are going IP based with web interfaces so no longer does the user have to load a piece of software on the computer to use the equipment. As the hardware is IP based, the operating system does not seem to matter. I also have to support our customer and are already getting calls mostly from the pleasure vessels as to “Can I connect to the internet with my new PC using Windows 7 ?”. As you did, I too have multiple PC’s in the LAB running Win 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 just for the purpose of verifying they work with the new terminals. I have been pleasantly surprised that the new terminals have no problems with these operating systems. Vessels also report that the Windows 7 PC’s seem to be able to quickly adapt to the other peripherals on the vessel such as printers and routers. The larger vessel such as the fishing fleets are very slow to go from something working like XP to the unknown like Vista or Windows 7.

Looking forward to your next articles.

Best regards, Grady

Grady Jeffreys

Technical Specialist

Mackay Communications

3691 Trust Drive

Raleigh, NC 27616

919-850-3041

Visit us online at www.MackaySatellite.com

Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

http://www.marinetelecom.net and http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954-683-3426

communications (at) marinetelecom.net
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