Swingman wrote:

"B a r r y" wrote

We have (6) registers running Vista at the bicycle shop with no
issues.

.... snip

As for the reluctance of corporate IT to introduce a new OS, 'mission
critical' or not, into a known computing network environment, DUH! ...
what else is new?

What is new is that, while there has never been a shortage of detractors
completely ignorant of the issues involved, what is increasingly unique
these days is that it's never been easier to display such ignorance.


Actually there is a little more to it than that. Aside from a few
cosmetic changes and some arguable improvements to security, there is
little to justify the cost of transition from the existing operating system
to Vista. Previous Windows versions could claim improved interoperability,
improved ability to self-identify and install peripherals, or improved
autodetection of network settings and self-attachment to networks compared
to the previous version. Windows Vista has no such improvements that
provide a business case for accepting the cost and pain of migrating from
XP to Vista. AAMOF, the current state of the OS, drivers, and other third
party software actually argue against such a business case. The only case
to be made is Msoft's threat of retiring XP. That is hardly a good argument
on Msoft's side -- there are instances of businesses jumping to Mac or
other OS's since they have to deal with re-training anyway.

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If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough