Hi Roger,

I would also like to mention that to make Windows Vista as standard OS across the business, many businesses would like to go through a testing procedures for many of their production applications which I think will take awhile.

It may sound really strange to you but its true that I have seeing many businesses have 3-5% of their network still running Windows 98. As Vista has fewer vulnerabilities which means less patch management.

I would really like to see businesses along with home users considering migrating Windows Vista. Likewise, testing and making sure Windows Vista is stable with other applications they need is really very important which I think will take a little while.

Cheers

Shoaib

Shoaib Yousuf

24 Jan 2008 2:29 PM

rhalbheer

24 Jan 2008 2:59 PM

Hi Shoaib,

it is not new to me that there are a lot of companies still having part of their infrastructure on Windows 98 or even older OSs. This is very scary as these Operating Systems often do not get any security updates anymore but are completely unprotected in the network and very, very often are used as a starting point for a network intrusion.

When it comes to Vista and application compatibilty and I think that there is a lot of fuzz out there by people who have never run Vista yet. Yes, there are applications that might have problems but most of them do due to some technology we implemented in Vista (like application virutalization)

Roger