But Vista hasn’t been as well received as it could have been by the IT community, and I’ve yet to find anyone provide me with a valid reason as to why. I hear the usual “it takes up too much memory”, “its slow”, “certain applications don’t work”, “they’ve changed it too much”, all weak excuses (in my opinion), not to make the switch.
When Windows XP was first launched, the exact same comments were made – but all those problems were overcome by most IT departments and pushed out to users as a more stable platform over the very similar Windows 2000. Of course Vista takes advantage of the more up-to-date hardware – it’d be foolish not to design an OS that doesn’t take advantage of the very latest and what will be arriving just around the corner. It’s slower – yet when you really start to understand what is happening under the hood to help secure and protect your system and keep it reliable, you can appreciate the trade off. They’ve changed it too much – no, everything is there that was there before in pretty much the same place its always been, it now just looks different because of its fresh new, Aero/glass look (depending which version you have).
Teething problems where always going to happen – when has there ever been any piece of software code that has worked first time out-of-the box without any patches or hot fixes at some point? Service Pack 1 should resolve these problems (I’m still running without the service pack and have yet to run into any major issues), and start to alleviate some of the unrest in the IT community, however the message I’m now hearing are that companies are either going to wait for service pack 2 (after promising to not to roll out until service pack 1), or even skip over Vista in its entirety.
Until I hear of a valid excuse not to use Vista in the work place, I’ll continue to stick with my belief that if it were my decision, my work computer would have been running Windows Vista yesterday.
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