90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista

A survey by King Research has found that Ninety percent of IT professionals have concerns using Vista, with compatibility, stability and cost being their key reasons. Interestingly, forty four percent of companies surveyed are considering switching to non-Windows operating systems, and nine percent of those have already started moving to their selected alternative. "The concerns about Vista specified by participants were overwhelmingly related to stability. Stability in general was frequently cited, as well as compatibility with the business software that would need to run on Vista," said Diane Hagglund of King Research.

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Re:I hate to re-post this but,....

[Anonymous Coward]

This is off-topic, but:

mind the language, I was pissed off when I wrote it If you have the presence of mind to notice that your post includes unnecessary foul language, then you have the presence of mind to go through that post and remove the words. (Alternately, if you think the swearing is crucial to the point you're trying to make, then say so and don't claim "I was pissed off when I wrote it.")

Many of the points you make are valid, and mixing in plenty of swear words only dilutes your emphasis.

(And, yes, I'm prepared for replies like: "Hypocrite! You labeled your comment as 'off-topic' but then submitted it anyway!")

Re:I hate to re-post this but,....

[AbRASiON]

Oh lovely that post is marked as a troll?
I mean I can understand over-rated but troll?
Have we got more fresh moderators from Digg on the site have we?

Please, bring on the moderators with a cluestick for goodness sakes.

Re:Well there you have it

[siyavash]

dude... you are full of crap. so many lies, wonder how you sleep at night.

Upgrade to XP

[SgtChaireBourne]

... not least of which is that it will likely arrive on a new PC bought, not because vista is available but because a new computer is required...

However, even if they're stuck in the Windows quagmire (for whatever reason or excuse), most OEMs allow purchasers to upgrade from MS Vista to XP for the asking. That's the catch though, they have to ask or else they're stuck with the infected machine.

Seriously, for 99% of what most home users do, Kubuntu / Ubuntu would be a drop in replacement -- except for the maintenance and malware nightmares.

Re:Well there you have it

[Stamen]

It is far easier to configure and manage Vista clients with users running as normal users, not as administrators. This will be true in the future, but not now, because so many applications just won't work with this setup (some of Microsoft's too, amazingly). Apps written for XP assume that the user is an admin, which of course isn't good development practices, but it's a reality. Vista's new security policies really fraks with an applications auto-update feature too, I've dealt with this myself with legacy custom applications, basically forced me to move applications out of Program Files, thus bypassing elevation issues. Of course the right thing to do is rewrite the way these legacy applications work, but that isn't going to get a high priority anytime soon.

Re:Abandon Ship!

[Stamen]

The issue is no longer if M$ can make Vista "good enough" it's if Windoze has ever adequate. First, I'm a big Unix advocate, and I'm by no means a supporter of Microsoft's products. However, comments like yours does absolutely nothing to help your cause. As soon as I see M$, Windoze, or other such 5th grade silliness, I tune out a comment, disregarding any thoughtful or insightful analysis that it may have contained.

Perhaps there is a reason that your comments are "mod'd out of sight". Language can be powerful, do try to learn to wield that power effectively.

Re:Well there you have it

[BVis]

They do improve security, just not on that computer. They provide job security for MCSEs and their fellow vermin. It also provides plausible deniability for MS; when grilled about a security problem, they can say "Hey, we gave people more security features, it's not our fault if people disregard them."