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Thinking of moving to Windows Vista? Whether you are or not, it’s becoming more difficult to ignore Microsoft’s latest operating system, as it comes pre-installed on many new computers and generates all the buzz in the papers.  Behind all the fanfare, though, lies a seldom discussed secret: Vista may not be right for everyone – at least not yet, and perhaps not for quite some time. And XP, meanwhile, has just gotten better and better. It continues to be the workhorse operating system that can serve most users the best.  You can spend a lot of money and time preparing your equipment to run Vista, only to find that after all the effort, you really had everything you needed in Windows XP – and then some. So it pays to go into any migration to Vista with eyes wide open. Here’s a blow-by-blow rundown of just what you’ll be getting yourself into with Vista compared to XP. Read the full article on BangkokPost.Com

Now more than a year out of the business gate, Microsoft’s Vista operating system is having trouble making friends in the exact place it needs them the most—the IT department.When asked, rather than express excitement over Vista’s promised better security, networking features and fancy GUI, IT professionals admit trepidation over the looming upgrade and the trouble it will cause. “Personally, I’m dreading the amount of time it’ll take to upgrade each machine from a hardware standpoint—adding memory or whatever—and from an operating system upgrade. It’s just time consuming,” Howard Graylin, a senior technical analyst in Ridgeland, Miss., told eWEEK.But technology professionals worry about more than the time it will take to actually migrate, but the inevitable difficulties resulting from an, at times, painfully slow user learning curve. “I also dread the ‘why doesn’t it work like this anymore?’ questions we’ll get from users. My standard answer is, ‘I don’t know. Let me ask Bill [Gates] the next time we have lunch and I’ll get back to you.’ Well, the second sentence is said silently,” jokes Graylin. “I need to keep my job.”

Graylin’s fears are echoed in a study to be released Nov. 19 in which 90 percent of IT professionals reported that they had concerns about migrating to Vista. Read the full article on EWeek.Com