Comments on: Microsoft to businesses: Now is the time to switch to Vista

The software maker continues its Vista PR campaign. It's message to businesses: move now, save money, and avoid pain later. But what about Windows 7?

[Maccess]

2006: "Now is the time to shift to Vista."
2007: "Now is the time to shift to Vista"
2008: "Now is the time to shift to Vista"
2009: "Vista is an obsolete operating system. In line with our product lifecycle policy we will be ending support in June. Now is the time to shift to 7"
2010 "Now is the time to shift to 7"

[mcepat]

"by MyRightEye June 4, 2008 10:48 AM PDT And the reply for a growing number will be, "No, now is the time to switch to OS X" "

Ya OSX is just great for big business with all its security policies and large exterprise management capabilities

[japan4]

Im pretty sure other people have said in the past "Oh, ill never need 512mb of RAM" or the such....bill gates even said that u wouldnt need more than a few hundred kbs of ram. what about storage, you can get 200gb for less than $100 nowadays... who woulda thought that in the early ninties?

Sorry people but if you seriously think windows 7 is gonna come out on time i would have to say your mistaken ... The switch will happen, its justa matter of time

[yoshino_i]

I felt that to count critical vulnerabilities and malicious software infections to compare security is not so good way. Each critical vulnerabilities has different risks, and offenders often makes malicious software for majority software. If Vista became majority, they'll make more and more malicious softwares and we'll feel that "Vista often became their target".

[mcnevich]

On one of my four computers, I have Windows Visa Ultimate. And what do you get extra for having Ultimate? A few crappy downloads of custom system sounds.

Although I like it and it's been very, very stable (purchased on a brand new system) the PR guys need to work on pleasing current customers before extending their reach into business.

[cheshirkat]

Wow! "...fewer critical vulnerabilities (17 as opposed to 35)...." I'm certainly impressed! ;-)

-CheshirKat

[Imalittleteapot]

Actually, if you think about it, nobody ever finds all the flaws or vulnerabilities in any software package. We know XP, Vista, SP1, SP3, Linux, and even DOS still contain unknown flaws. Still! Today! Does anyone really think Microsoft found and fixed every single last flaw in Vista with SP1? Is Microsoft really claiming that Vista is more secure because they've found fewer flaws in it? That's easy to do. Just don't look and you won't find any right? Anyway, assume XP and Vista both have a magic number of flaws like 100. Now using your magic sarcastic numbers we'll assume Vista fixed 17 of its 100 flaws, and XP fixed 35 of its 100 flaws. Which OS is more secure?

So anyway, just saying I agree I don't really think Vista is all that more secure, but this method some people use to measure the security of an OS is just plain stupid. The best way to rate security is how fast the fixes go out, and how smoothly they can be integrated into a running system. Now, is MS saying they patch XP slower then they patch Vista? Well that wouldn't sound right either would it? It is almost like they can't win either way.

[Imalittleteapot]

Oh I guess those numbers were in the article and not sarcastic, but missed while I was scanningit . Anyway. same point. I'd like to ask MS exactly how that translates into more secure?

[Panamon]

I have used Vista for a 11 months. I hated the sluggishness and lack of compatibility w/ M$ own software. What is wrong w/ Redmond. I never felt comfortable w/ Vista. I am a reseller. Every reseller that I know believes that Vista is awful. I am looking to go to Ubuntu. I have not sold one copy of Vista.

[magicmaster]

You could save NOW by not purchasing Vista!
No purchase necessary, just instant saving!

[mister dog]

Microsoft continue to tell us what we need.

We need software that does not give us any kind of headache. Linux/Unix will be the choice through natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Windows on your mobile device. Don't make me laugh. Flapping your arms around making gestures that can be done with a slight finger and writs movement pointless.

We do not have so much money that we can all have a dedicated games room in our houses.

Software needs to work, Microsoft software does not work properly out of the box. Proprietary software always has problems......

[gnomerules]

I use to run MS OS's on 100% of my boxes and even tried Vista for over a year, but now I'm done with with MS. Currently, Linux is running on all my boxes. It took some time to learn Linux, but the time was well worth it. Atleast if there is a problem with Linux, I can fix it myself. Some stuff with Vista just can't be fixed. Believe me, I know.

[sgsamo]

It's quite obvious as to what MSFT needs to do to get businesses to buy Vista. MSFT will need to subsidize these business so that they can afford the new hardware and/or upgrades to run Vista.

If your business is running fine on XP, why upgrade to Vista and sort thru the headaches that you had to go thru with XP? MSFT is just frustrated that a once reliable profit stream is drying up as people just won't play the upgrade game anymore.

[tekwiz4u]

This is what MSFT needs to do. Produce a solid OS (XP) and BUILD from it. I rather take a modded XP OS than a competely new OS. It's like taking a car that you like, and making it better with performance upgades. My the time its maxed out on it modifications, you can then introduce and welcome a new OS. Engineers will spend less time creating a mod then writing code from scratch.

[rss245]

What is Microsoft thinking. Most people would agree Vista is a disaster because:
(1) It is a memory pig. (2GB minimum Ram)
(2) It rockets expenses in new software and many software compatibility issues.
(3) It rockets expenses with hardware because older machines won't support it
I recently heard Microsoft won't allow Windows XP installs on new machines after June 19th
Can anyone confirm this. A Dell rep said so.

There are 4 flavors of Vista and the only ones I have tried were Home and Home Premium.
Does anyone have any experience with the Ultimate and business Enterprise versions?
What exactly is different between them??

[Imalittleteapot]

Basically if you don't know the difference between Premium and Ultimate then you don't really need Ultimate probably. I don't even really know the difference myself though except Ulimate has full drive encryption and you can set a video as your desktop background. Apparently that gives most people motion sickness though. The other versions of Vista are just Ultimate with features taken out on purpose. Enterprise I know nothing about because luckily I don't have to deal with such things.

[benjaminstraight]

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