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Story: Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges
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It is indeed the right thing to do, wait for SP1, you seem to have things the wrong way round, people should have upgraded to 2000/XP from 98 but not XP/2000 to VISTA.
In todays age your right it shouldn't be, and I would agree if the benefits of upgrading where outwaying the benefits for staying with XP but they don't.
Back when people upgraded from 98 to XP there was a fundamentle reason for it, 98 was far more unstable than XP, plus XP gave so much more it was leaps and bounds ahead of 98 incorperating business os foundations like NTFS over FAT etc. The change from XP to VISTA is simply eye candy and a few apps that you can probably work into XP. Plus there are issues with software that requires admin rights to run, and there is alot of business software out there like that.
They did the right thing changing there outlook on security, but based it still on a single user model, then implemented it without finding away for single user model apps to run in the hacked multi user environment. This is the same issue that admins already have with people using this kind of software and having to give people power user or admin rights so they may run it. This issue was around along time before VISTA through networks at work. Now they have just passed it onto the consumer.
It is about time they ditched there model, and wrote a OS from scratch, instead of releasing OS's with the same bugs as 98 and XP before they where patched. Proof of them using old code in there new hacked OS.
I say wait for SP1 even if it's just to patch the issues they had 5/10 years ago that they forgot to implement yet again through using old code, not to mention the new bugs and issues.
The trouble will start when XP support is pulled, if VISTA is not ready by this time, there will be huge issues for everyone. Viruses and spyware will become more widespread than it is now, as MS will not be plugging any more holes in security, your virus software might save you but will soon get bogged down with permemnant bombardments trough holes. I suggest MS sort out VISTA or prolong support for XP, or there will be issues for all and just take a guess how many MS boxes there aer out there, filling your cars, taking your payments, organising your flights..................
Paul
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