Windows 7 Migration
Why You Shouldn't Ignore Vista
There seems to be a prevailing thought among executives and IT managers: Skip Vista, and wait for Windows 7. While that's perhaps understandable given Vista's ongoing bad press and Windows 7's seemingly imminent launch (though we'll believe January, 2010 when we see January, 2010), ignoring Vista is a bad idea.
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There seems to be a prevailing thought among executives and IT managers: Skip Vista, and wait for Windows 7. While that's perhaps understandable given Vista's ongoing bad press and Windows 7's seemingly imminent launch (though we'll believe January, 2010 when we see January, 2010), ignoring Vista is a bad idea.
So says Information Week's Sara Peters, who feels that organizations planning to bypass Vista may face usability and security troubles down the road. She argues that Vista is "the most secure operating system currently available," better than Mac OS X and even Linux. Sticking with XP, then, means greater security risks, as that's where hackers continue to focus their efforts.
Meanwhile, decision-makers who fear that Vista's learning curve is too steep (the top argument against migration, according to Peters) should consider this:
All we've heard from Microsoft about Windows 7 suggests that the user experience will bear a close resemblance to that of Vista. It will most definitely look a whole lot more like Vista than it will look like XP. Third-party developers will still have to rearchitect their applications and drivers to work with Windows 7 (unless they've already made those changes in order to work nicely with Vista, in which case they'll be a-OK for 7).In other words, Vista's look and feel aren't going away, so you better get used to it (and get your staff trained on it). We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
