Great article on why not to get Vista right now…10th March 2007

Here is a great article, reasons categorized into 5 categories.

The much-touted new avatar of Windows may not be something to jump into right now

I think it has been a common practice within enterprises not to get into a new operating straight away and waiting till Service Pack-1 for the new operating system is released, having said that, this article is a good source of quick information on the drawbacks…

http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/os/2007/107030801.asp?nl=6_215733_Mar8

I personally have experienced the lack of support for Sound, Network and USB devices on 3 different versions of Vista (Enterprise, Ultimate & Business), I finally got it right the 3rd time on Business edition (thanks to lots of trial and error on getting the device driver from various places by Dave Watts our in house magician). I am still not successful on install the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise.

Another instance, where in I was upgrading Windows XP to Vista Ultimate, it rejected a bunch of software’s already installed and working on XP (Nero, virus scan are the one’s I quickly recollect).

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March 9, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
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