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Ignore Vista Until 2008

Posted by Zonk on from the so-sayeth-the-wizard dept.

Blakey Rat writes "According to Gartner in a research note entitled 'Ten reasons you should and shouldn't care about Microsoft's Windows Vista', businesses should wait until 2008 before installing Windows Vista, or 'pursue a strategy of managed diversity' by only bringing in new machines with Windows Vista and not upgrading existing computers. Although acknowledging the security benefits of upgrading, they explain in the report that most of the security-related benefits that come with Vista are available today through third-party software products."

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  1. Re:Perhaps we should wait until 2008 by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How about being modded "Redundant" since someone said the same thing a little ways above you?

    Okay, I give you the benefit of the doubt - since it's in the first few posts, the other poster probably hadn't shown up yet.

    I'll go find the one-hundred-fiftieth post that will say the same thing...

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  2. Re:The reason not to upgrade is... by ZeroZen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    wow. those images really make me want to get a mac. and an indie rock hairdo!

    barf.

  3. Re:The reason not to upgrade is... by oztiks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ya know, i posted below a joke about windows way less offensive then this one and i got rated a 30% flamebait. I mean way less offensive then this, i even used smilies and still got flamebated ..

    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168061&thre shold=0&commentsort=0&tid=201&tid=218&mode=thread& cid=14012640

    All i gotta say is there are some over sensative mods out there that need to learn to take a joke a bit better if they are going to rate these threads ... And yes i feel sorry for the windows using mods, they are really torn here in slashdot..