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As an employee of a company which is (unfortunately) a Microsoft testing
partner, I can concur with Benjamin's comment.
My employers will not upgrade until they have done very extensive testing,
in particular on the various pieces of non-Microsoft business software we
use.
The results of this will then be fed back to both the software suppliers and
to Microsoft.
The time it took from the release of XP, to a full company wide upgrade from
95 was about two-and-a-half years. The upgrade to Office 2003 took even
longer.
Two observations on this are:
1) Full commercial release of MS software seems to happen at a point which,
for any other vendor / supplier, would be a beta release.
2) In order to maintain an adequate level of security from XP, the IT
department of the company I work for locks down the systems so tightly that
it has a significant impact on productivity (although they haven't figured
out how to prevent people running live distros yet).
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Benjamin A'Lee
Sent: 18 March 2007 09:13
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LUG] No Vista Please
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:08:24PM +0000, Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >Hi Guys
> >
> >You're going to love this:
>
><http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000229
> >>
> >
> >Oops what next!
>
>
> Everyone does this, and everyone did it for XP. It is standard operating
> practice to not upgrade your OS because a newer one exists.
> If I see one more story like this, I may scream...
As I understand it, many places don't even install updates (service
packs, but also just normal Windows Updates) until they've been tested
and they're sure things won't break (much).
bma
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