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Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available
Microsoft has made available the release candidate for Vista SP1, after a limited beta begun last September. Informationweek points out white papers telling business users that if they were waiting for SP1 to solve application compatibility issues, they needn't bother waiting: SP1 won't solve them, and in fact might cause applications to break that were running under Vista. Techworld outlines the hoops users will have to jump through to get SP1 installed.
" Informationweek advices business users ".
How badly informed is this magazine? The Fortune 500 companies (probably the fortune 5,000,000 companies) wont touch Vista with a bargepole. They have spent millions of man hours writing testing and deploying thousands of apps Windows XP.
Does Information week think they are going to risk this investment by deploying evferything on an untested operating System after upgrading/replacing millions of working XP PCs with "Vista unready" hardware.
Windows NT was a common site on business desktops until about 2005 a full five years after Win2K became available and three years after XP was released. This comparitively rapid deployement of XP only happened because it was largely a rebranding of NT plus some eye candy. Vista is drasticly different from XP and no sensible IT department will touch it until at least SP2 is available and the current set of desktop hardware needs replacing anyway.
Old COBOL programmers never die. They just code in C.
Um, this may shock you, but there are people that don't feel like they're being abused my MS at all. I'm actually liking their newest products quite a bit; that includes Vista, VS 2005/8, Office 2007 and server 2003, MS Money.