Comments on: Gartner paints a clearer Vista picture

The analyst group repositions its advice on Vista. Instead of "ignore it and wait," the group says "prepare for change."

[rbannon]

Plan for change . . .

yea, dump MicroSoft. I did it almost twenty years ago.

[nmcphers]

It's very likely...

Microsoft called them and protested to some higher ups at Gartner, and they relented.

[bobby_brady]

That's what I was thinking

I mean really, there isn't anything ground breaking in Vista.

[mpinones]

They did not relent

The own a piece of Gartner. So Gartner opinion is biased.

Really??

First, if you cannot trust your IT department which uses and supports your infrastructure, your orginization might have bigger issues...that aside;

Tell me, what programs of any significance do not work in 2k, but work in Vista?

[cturkin]

I'll Tell You

>>Tell me, what programs of any significance do not work in 2k, but work in Vista?

Probably not any programs of significance, but plenty of companies rely of programs which are insignificant to the masses, but critical to them - and not all software vendors will go through the process of fully certifying thier products for a 6 year old OS.

[Earl Benser]

Sorry, MS.....

.... but I'm going to wait until it's clear that Vista actually does
useful things without being a major bomb. And even then,
someone is going to have to come up with compelling reasons why
XP won't run my software quite nicely for another five years. I'm not
really expecting that to happen....

Microsoft wil.....

....come up with a reason, by discontinuing support for XP.

Enjoy your forced upgrade!

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Performance could be a reason

Remember that XP is an OS produced *before* MS did it's huge security review. Windows Server 2003 came out after that review and despite the fact that it was "server tuned" I found 2003 to be a lot faster and more nimble on a laptop than XP. Vista will be the first desktop version incorporating those improvements.

[heystoopid]

One Small thing

One small thing, for Windows Vista, read the minimum hardware spec's required for full implementation of all it's features!

[Blito]

WinFX?

Windows Presentation Fundation will be built in to Windows Vista. This allows the average HTML web desighner to create highly complex 3D graphic apps directly into their webpages by using just XML. This is very similar to Javascript, but XML is easier to ALLOT easier to use; also Javascript doesn't support 3D stuff yet I dont think.
You will be able to install something called WinFX into XP and 2000 to simuylate Windows Presentation Foundation but an upgrade is an upgrade I guess. Still, where's the Beef for all that monrey except some extra nice featurers here and there? Average Mmiddle-Classer might upgrade but the poorer probably wont especaially if it has higher system requirements.

[rcrusoe]

Yeah sure

Anytime I see a company like Gartner backpedal, my first thought is someone got to them. This time is no different.

One thing the long, long, wait for longhorn did for our company is allow us to transition our critical apps to browser based applications.

Now if Vista turns out to be as big a virus magnet as its predecessors (and so far it looks like it is) we will be upgrading our W2K machines all right, but not to another version of Windows.