Zac Bowling’s Blog

I just don’t know what to make of this video… I guess Microsoft is trying to break the stigma around Vista as best they can (I don’t think this video is helping their case much).

Texas Instruments, my company, will not support upgrading to Vista across the entire corporation as was leaked to the inquirer back in late 06 to early 07. No Vista machines in sight here still (except in the testing labs). Everyone is running XP if they are using Windows, but you do see a lot of Mac’s running Leopard, or and few laptops running the latest Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, and OpenSolaris desktops for those of using in various development and engineering roles.

I’m sure TI would probably use Vista if Windows 7 isn’t out by the time that XP goes into legacy support status, but XP works and we don’t have any problems with it. We already bought our huge corporate level volume licenses for XP so I can see the logic into why really IT doesn’t want to upgrade more then 10,000 users machines here when there isn’t a significant gain (and more of a loss really) by doing so even still. Nothing in Vista (even in SP1) is really worth upgrading for.

Tags: Mono & .NET

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