Wondering why you should bother to upgrade your laptop to Windows Vista? Perhaps you could do without the danger of a beta OS limiting your productivity, or are just thinking "why bother"?

The team in Microsoft Scotland do not have the luxury of hanging around. A colleague James Henderson has committed to our Scottish business Partner community that we will all be on Vista and Office 2007 before the end of September. This was an attempt to set a good example, and so far the Scottish Partners have responded to the challenge by committing 53 of their own users on Vista/Office 2003 by end October.

Current thinking is that a Vista RC1 will shortly be with us as a solid build for the big push.

However, in the meantime James has created a boot DVD of Vista build 5472 and is wandering our office looking for laptops to upgrade. Its the 1st of September tomorrow...best get a move on James :-)