Now Is Not the Time for Vista

narramissic writes "With nearly a month of Vista availability behind us, businesses don't seem to be in any rush to take the leap. An article on ITworld cites two significant reasons for the foot-dragging. First, Microsoft's case-by-case approach to Vista patches, which is leaving some problems unpatched until after the consumer release in January. Second, application (in)compatibility. From the article: 'Some of the applications that still aren't compatible with Vista include IBM Corp.'s Lotus Notes e-mail and collaboration suite; Cisco Systems Inc.'s and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.'s VPN clients; Intuit Corp.'s accounting software QuickBooks 2006 and earlier versions; and anti-virus (AV) software from Trend Micro Inc.'" '

Comments

Why is this on the back of Microsoft?

[nef704]

What I dont get is why people are blaming application incompatabilities on Microsoft. These companies have all had well over a year to release a version that works under Vista. If they are incompatable at this point it is no ones fault but their own.

Re:This is unusual how?

[WED Fan]

Some corporations are still running Windows 98.

Any company still running Windows 98 deserves to go out of business. If they are public entities, they should be investigated. Any company running Windows 98 should fire their IT staff.

Any IA guy with 98 on his network should either quit, commit suicide, and change careers. He should never mention it to any other IA guy.

Seriously, now, do YOU really know any companies serious about their business that are still running Windows 98? And you do nothing about it? That's like seeing a bleeding man at the side of the road and passing him by. Hell, they'd be better off with Linspire 1.0, at a minimum.

Re:Now Is Not the Time for Linux

[firenurse]

I remember modinng it Troll. Lets see if it comes up on M2