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Vista and businesses butt heads
Vista took a while to come to fruitation, and now that it's out, and somewhat patched, businesses are having a hard time deciding whether it's worth it to update. A new survey by PatchLink Corp. suggests that businesses see XP as being far more secure than Microsoft's new Vista operating system, and have decided not to migrate to the platform. 87% of respondents in the survey stated that they would be happy staying with their existing version of Windows, with only 2% currently running Vista.
Just last year 50% of CIO and IT network admins said that they believed that Vista would be far more secure than XP, so why the big change?
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Subscribe to commentsShunnabunichJul 31st 2007 5:14PM
Perhaps it's because last year, Vista wasn't there for them to see. ;)
Jarrett KaufmanAug 1st 2007 1:39PM
I work for a network support company, and we handle all the purchasing and maintenance of our clients' computers and networking hardware.
Several of our clients are running some Vista machines, and several are going all-Vista. Overall, though, we're keeping most of our clients on XP for now. But not because of any absurdly misguided idea that XP is more secure than Vista. That's absurd. Not only is it not technically true, but considering how little of the population is USING Vista, most of the security hacks and attempts are going to be targeted at XP still, so that arguably increases Vista's security for the moment.
Most of our clients aren't switching because either their specialized and outdated applications aren't compatible with the new OS, or simply because we're not comfortable enough with the profile and active directory setups in Vista to do full rollouts. We're mainly in test phase right now and will be rolling it out across our own organization before we're ready to recommend the upgrade to our clients. But we do plan to implement it and are quite excited about some of the advantages it will provide us.
Vista's new. That's reason number one it's not being fully adopted by businesses. It doesn't say a word about how much they trust it, or how much they like it. It only follows the trend that businesses can't risk their livelihoods on untested technology or an OS that won't run their rickety, poorly-programmed software designed by a company that no longer supports it. That, or they can't afford to upgrade the licenses on that specialty software to the new, Vista-compatible versions, on every computer.