Texas senator wants to ban Vista purchases

It's more likely third party drivers and sloppily written bespoke software that is causing said "bugs" and "blue screens". The guy has a point, but he stumbled upon it by accident. Decisions like this should be left to the IT folk, the (hopefully informed) people who have to deal with it.
 
True, he shouldn't be the one to make that decision, especially as he seems not to have a clue. But why should an agency upgrade to Vista now, as 7 will be out within months, and it works much better on the kind of low-spec machines that they're likely to be using? They've got by with XP until now, so they might as well hold out for a few more months and skip an unnecessary and possibly problematic upgrade cycle.
 
The problem is even though W7 is just around the corner, it is a new operating system - regardless of what it does and doesn't share with Vista. If I had to upgrade a network within the next 12 months it would have to be Vista which has been tried and tested.
 
It's always the same, whenever an article has anything bad to say about Windows Vista, it seems to get much more publicity then it deserves. When videos (or articles) such as this one here should be the ones that need to be more widely watched or read if it's an article.
 
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Wow, a lot of rubbish posted on this!

For a corporate environment Vista offers literally nothing over XP. In fact, its more hassle to administer, costs more than XP, and needs hardware upgrades to get it to run properly.

Business users DO NOT need eye candy, so in my opinion the Texan has a point.

Would you guys want say the NHS to spend Millions, perhaps 100's of millions to upgrade all their machines to Vista?

What would be the advantage? There is none.

Offices don't need sidebars, "Aero" themes, 3D Alt Tab scrolling, or degredation in performance on the same hardware.

Do people not think? Its all very well to sit at home and laugh about the terminology that the guy used, but he's right.

Sure, you can sit with your stable Vista install on your quad core etc etc, but in the real business world Vista is utterly pointless.

Its hard to see what even Windows 7 could offer over XP to be compelling enough to warrant spending millions of pounds of TAXPAYERS money! (as in the Texan case too)
 
Gotta go through and edit all the GP's that are specific to Vista.

For high numbers of machines that are worked on "offline", it could take a long time to update all the policies. Also have to contend with the increased support calls for staff who have no idea what a sidebar is, or find it difficult to navigate round.

It's like Office 2007. Lots of extra faff, that for 99% of the workforce is totally unused.

Having said all that, locking down the extra "features" would not be that much hassle in the first place.

I agree that its potentially more "integrated" with SVR2008, but the difference is so small that to my mind, it doesnt make an awful lot of difference.
 
Smackova said:
What would be the advantage? There is none.
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May I direct you too these two videos here:

Windows Vista Adoption and Deployment

This first video talks about why some people in the panel migrated over to Windows Vista, some of their deployment experiences, the principle of least privilege, why the operating system requires more resources to run than Windows XP and a few other things too.

Let's Talk Windows Vista Security

This video here talks about some of the security changes within Windows Vista. It addresses things like Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), User Account Control (UAC), the changes to Windows Firewall and that Windows Vista went through the Software Development Life cycle process. There are also a few comments about the sort of impact of malware on a Windows XP machine compared to a Windows Vista based system, with the difference being quite substantial along with a few other things too.
 
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Originally Posted by Smackova
For a corporate environment Vista offers literally nothing over XP. In fact, its more hassle to administer
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In what way?
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i think he means the admin has to upgrade all the pc's = time + cost of 100's licenses of Vista?

although most of our manchines at work are Win 2000 where still slowly rolling over to XP :rolleyes:

I Don't think Vista would support our software thats required anyway. there very obsecure & use very weird USB devices
 
I agree with Smackova on this. In a corporate environment it offers us nothing. In the industry I work in I don't know any other organisation that has gone for Vista we are all waiting for Windows 7. Fire Wizard with regards to deployment SCCM 2007 deploys XP just as seamless as Vista and as for the firewall we don't even turn it on as we have a Cisco ASA.
 
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