Comments on: Softchoice: Corporate America is not ready for Windows Vista

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By: vernon gratto

vernon gratto — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:58:09 +0000

All Vista is good for is lining the other software companies pockets. Everyone who bought software last year will have to purchase new stuff.

By: koko

koko — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:24:40 +0000

We have arrived to a interesting line where comanies do not need Vista because XP provides enough and is so far “working”. If Microsoft enhanced XP without breaking everything else and forcing new hardware (by adding proper networking for example and better security measures) everybody would jump on but tell a company with 25000 pc’s to upgrade because of the new interface. The laughs are going to be heard on Mars.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:21:35 +0000

Win2K is only a few short months from being “not supported” by M$. We have 2k3, but its not too far away from being extint in M$ eyes. Sure, they are toting Vista as a desktop platform, but what about my servers? I won’t be going anywhere near Vista in production until they’ve at least released a new server OS. Even then, I won’t be bringing my 2k3 servers to whatever they come up with. It may make me believe if they release a Vista server architecture that I will let the morons have Vista desktop. It would phase into the hardware reload by that point.

By: Roger G.

Roger G. — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:21:34 +0000

The company I work for (60,000 employees worldwide) usually takes about 3 years befoer switching to a new OS. And I’m glad since it’s a nightmare to migrate hundreds of specialized engineering and development apps to a new OS.

By: Alexei Z.

Alexei Z. — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:16:21 +0000

The point is not that Windows 2000 or Windows XP are not “right”, but that Windows 2000 and Windows XP are good enough for companies that use it. If previous operating systems are perfect to do tasks they were rolled out for, there is no incentive to upgrade. Sometime around 2003 when I went to a physician I noticed that they still were running Windows NT 4 on their medical terminals. If NT 4 allowed them to run their business applications and the support cost is acceptable, then the upgrade is unnecessary. There is nothing they would gain from it. However as the OS grows older the support cost increases. There are several factors to that. It’s hard to get updates for old systems. New servers and clients don’t play well with old servers and clients (there are newer and more secure protocols that old OS’es don’t support). And there are productivity benefits that the new OS promises (this can also be viewed as the increased cost of running old OS’es). Eventually the cost of running old OS’es gets prohibitive, and then it’s the right time to upgrade. Notice I never mentioned the hardware. The total cost of upgrade includes software, hardware, training and many other things. It’s only the total cost that needs to be weighed against running business on old stuff. The article misses the point by singling out the hardware as the primary factor determining the need of upgrade.

By: rikardo

rikardo — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:03:30 +0000

Vista not on my production list until late 2008.
Office and IE6 work just fine. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.

By: Jerry S.

Jerry S. — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:20:43 +0000

C’mon now Microsoft hasn’t gotten Windows 2000 or Xp right yet and now they want us to buy into Vista. The MCSE can’t keep up with certification requirements. Microsoft ought to focus on their XP os until the get all the bugs out, keep it up to date for at least two years before even thinking about a new release. Update Tuesdays throw fears into most admins since their updates tend to crash servers. We’ll let you “got2b the 1st” to have it guys get it and work through the buggy software before considering it. Let’s face it a MS Essential support contract at $36K that gets you the same support as Joe Blow home user is money lost and with Microsofts inherited bugs they will make additional billions in technical support contracts and singles sales at 200.00 a pop. They can keep it.

By: Brian P.

Brian P. — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:40:25 +0000

Leave it to the MAC crowd to make the illogical leap…

Ron, the idea is that these companies aren’t going to buy new hardware for the vista software so won’t be moving to vista. Given that they won’t buy new hardware for vista, what makes you think they will buy new MACs?