Vista — CIOs' First Impressions

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Vista — CIOs' First Impressions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 4, 2006 @10:22PM from the don't-trust-but-verify dept.

lizzyben writes "Baseline magazine recently interviewed CIOs and IT consultants to get their take on Microsoft's Vista and is reporting that 'Most big companies will wait at least a year before deploying Vista to make sure the operating system is stable and that third-party applications work well with it, the beta testers say.'"

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Re:WinXP/2K 'incubation'? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-04 22:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Most companies are expecting to deploy WinXP this spring.
Re:if you're waiting for vista to be stable or sec by ellem · 2006-12-04 22:40 · Score: 3, Funny

I said for a long time, "No, no, Y2K was fine it was Win2K we had all the trouble with."

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Re:if you're waiting for vista to be stable or sec by schnooka_boy · 2006-12-04 22:55 · Score: 2, Funny

What do you mean Win2k isn't secure? It's perfectly secure so long as you don't connect it to any sort of network.
Re:WinXP/2K 'incubation'? by dc29A · 2006-12-04 23:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Most companies are expecting to deploy WinXP this spring.

What crackpot moderator tagged this funny? I work for a medium size bank and we are deploying XP right now. It should be finished by early March.
Re:WinXP/2K 'incubation'? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-05 00:52 · Score: 1, Funny

Hell, one of our clients (a one of the larger UK based finance companies) has just put back it's head-office upgrade again. They are still on NT4+IE55 and are officially likely to be for at least another six months (unofficially, I don't think it'll happen at all, ever, unless their outsourced IT people simply start refusing to maintain the older systems, which will be a long time coming as they make their money whether or not an upgrade happens). Funfunfun.

While most of the people we deal with are 2K/XP for the most part, it isn't unusual to see NT4 and I know of at least one other company that is mainly NT4 on the desktop.