For many in the IT profession, January 30, 2007 was a day that will live in infamy. If you’ve blocked it from your memory, that’s the day that Windows Vista was launched and available for purchase in stores and in new PC systems. And there was much rejoicing. Not!
For many in the IT profession, January 30, 2007 was a day that will live in infamy. If you’ve blocked it from your memory, that’s the day that Windows Vista was launched and available for purchase in stores and in new PC systems. And there was much rejoicing.
Not!
Of course, with every new major release of Windows, there has been the usual kvetching and moaning about how much more memory it will suck up, what programs are going to become incompatible, what hardware will stop working, et cetera. We saw it when we made the 16-bit to 32-bit transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, the NT platform migration from Windows 95/98/ME to Windows XP, and now finally with Vista.
With the consumer Windows operating systems it was always a personal ordeal– because unlike IT shops who have the luxury of playing” wait and see” and thoroughly test desktop Windows releases to see how they impact their environments, most end-users are either stuck with whatever gets installed on newly purchased systems, or get to undergo painful upgrade processes if they want to move to the latest and greatest release.
But the more I talk to end users that have been living with Vista, and large customers who have been testing Vista to see if it will fit the needs of corporate IT, it seems like the Vista migration has been more painful and far less successful than other similar Windows migrations before it. And this has not just been…
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