By Tim Ferguson
Published: Wednesday 16 January 2008
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Name
Chris Stevens
Location
London
Occupation
Consultant
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Refresh XP to Vista when you have to upgrade the hardware. There is no real gain from Vista over XP so why take all of the hassle and cost of upgrading?
Vista needs more hardware resources to run sensibly so there is a (not so) hidden cost of upgrading to Vista.
So the bottomline impact for your organisation is more spend with no gain.
We run both operating systems side by side and will gradually phase out XP as we replace hardware. The "expired" hardware may just be repurposed to run a suitable LINUX distribution, with energy costs being part of the decision equation.
For Servers ...well that is another topic.
Why change if what you have does the job.
Anonymous
Refresh XP to Vista when you have to upgrade the h...
Chris Stevens
There was similar resistance to XP. This largely d...
Andrew Robb
Perhaps the reason that more IT departments are ev...
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