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Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded Windows
Rob writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that less than 2% of UK-based firms have already upgraded all their desktops to Windows Vista. Just shy of 5% said that they have begun a Windows Vista desktop upgrade program. 6.5% said they will upgrade in the next 6 months; 12.6% in the next 12 months; 13% in the next 18 months; and 18% in the next two years. That means that within two years from now, only 56% of survey respondents say they will have upgraded their firm's desktops to Windows Vista. 'In terms of retail sales of Vista in a box, Ballmer said he believes most of that up-tick is concentrated in the first few months of the software going on sale. He doubted that this would carry over into Microsoft's fiscal 2008, which began in July 2007. Analyst estimates for fiscal 2008 growth in Microsoft's client business unit, which includes Vista, is around the 9% mark. Ballmer said that analysts should consider that rather than creating huge spurts of new growth "a new Windows release is primarily a chance to sustain the revenue we have".'"
All of it deserved. Industry press people who recommended Vista have gone so far as to apologize. The verdict is almost unanimous: Vista is more of everything everyone hates about Windows. It's bloated, buggy and won't work with your favorite software and toys. When it does work, it won't do what you want and collects private information to send back to the M$ mothership.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Sounds like the problem is with your campus... not with Vista.
The real question should be why your IT staff still have jobs... and why you guys have employees demonstrating such horrid incompetence cashing pay checks in the first place. If you guys can't hire competent IT people... why would anyone think you are hiring competent teachers?