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On Monday 15 January 2007 14:15, Peter J Murray wrote: > Hello > > Vista is not that far away, and I'm curious as to the plans of of > various departments to roll it out, or not roll it out. > > I'll start out and say that I'll probably put one Vista machine on the > network on a test machine and use it for my day to day machine for > testing, as well as maintain an XP machine for support. If Vista proves > to be ok, I'll probably put it on incoming new machines as they are > replaced. I might take advantage of the express upgrade program on a > couple of machines and laptops we ordered in the window since October. > If it doesn't test well, then we'll just wait. > > Vista appears to be available from computer store for $30 for the media, > and $59 for each upgrade license I have no plans to roll it out anytime soon. I'm not at all convinced its much in the way of a security improvement, and have seen friends struggle with hardware that they just assumed would work with Vista, which doesn't. I won't even go into the DRM issues with it... I think I'll wait 'till something on the order of the first service pack comes out for it. My users would like to do things on thier systems, not twiddle and fight them. Three is also the issue that about 1/4 of the machines in our department are really able to run Vista. --STeve Andre' Political Science