Quote: Originally Posted by
Bugbyte 
I dunno, I think he's onto something. My company hasn't upgraded to Vista because it breaks a bunch of our internal apps. It costs time and money to rewrite those and they work just fine right now, thank you very much.
What's the compelling reason to upgrade? It's not like Vista suddenly lowers the cost of ownership or magically reduces support costs. Our helpdesk is so familiar with known XP issues that switching to Vista would set us back for quite awhile. All fine and good if there's something in Vista that will eventually pay off down the road.
There's not, though. End of story. Sticking with XP until MS forces us to upgrade.
My company hasn't upgraded for the same reason. Cost issues are issues, but familiarity can only be an "excuse" so long. Everyone else has to learn and stay with the current technology, why shouldnt IT people?
Vista isn't THAT much different than XP, really. Bringing apps up to speed (some ancient) really isn't that difficult. I'm running many programs on my vista install that i've been running since 98SE. I actually have yet to run across a program i use that won't work in vista with some minor tweaking. hell even office 2000 runs fine if you don't need the outlook address book...
But my original post was asking what flaws so many people know about that warrant such bashing of Vista? Sometimes mac and linux fanboys just need to be challenged, one gets tired of their blind, trendy faith.
For the record, i have nothing against linux. I'm dual booting Ubuntu along with my Xp and Vista isntall (i guess that would be triple boot?) Its great and its free, its just not near as universally flexible as windows. I really have no use for it other than to play around with it.