
By Steve Ranger
Published: Friday 07 December 2007
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Name
Karen Challinor
Location
UK
Occupation
staring at clouds
Comment
so in short if you upgrade to vista you have
a major upgrade spend in hardware and software, plus applications that need bringing up to date plus retraining
if you don't upgrade to vista you may have support issues with windows 7
so damned if you do and damned if you don't, it's money in Microsofts pocket either way
on the other hand if your OS is doing what you need why not stick with it and just not upgrade
or dare I say it get over the aversion to open source that most businesses seem to have, I can fins open source equivalents for 90% of the software I use, which is about the same compatability as I have with vista and I'm not a couple of hunderd plus pounds per seat worse off going open source either
so in short if you upgrade to vista you have
a ...
Karen Challinor
You say in your story that it's likely software co...
Ollie Clark
XP is a pretty good OS. It's only reasonable for s...
Peter Ochodo
I have been using Vista since the Beta version and...
Ken Knight
Because of poor backward compaibilty many companie...
Simon Curry
I haven't come across any benefits to recommending...
Tim Cogher
"the next version of Windows - codenamed Windows 7...
Roger Ash
I think the best solution is away from Microsoft. ...
Anonymous
Seems clear that for most businesses Windows is th...
Finbar Dineen
Vista has caused the usual upgrade headaches with ...
Andrew Lewis
So nothing actually changes then for all the money...
Nick Cole
I agree with Ollie Clark.
Just because MSoft ha...
Andrew Witham
here is an open challenge to Microsoft if they are...
Karen Challinor
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