Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 08:39 UTC
Microsoft is hard at work trying to battle the public and businesses' perception about Windows Vista. They already published a whitepaper named "Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista", detailing some of what they believe are misunderstandings. Now, they also published a document wit five reasons to deploy Windows Vista - and why you shouldn't wait for Windows 7.
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Microsoft has been defending Vista quite a lot recently. They keep releasing these announcements and brochures that explain why you are wrong if you avoid Vista, or why Vista is better than XP or why it is better than Linux or or..
During the first year of Windows XP, updates were
released 26 times. Through a combination of a month-
ly release schedule and decreased vulnerabilities,
Windows Vista needed updates released only nine
times in its first year.
Why compare Vista to when XP was released? Well, to make the numbers look good. They are probably hoping people will not notice they are not comparing to XP SP2/SP3 which is more or less just as secure as Vista nowadays. XP has always supported users running as non-admins too, and in all those years that XP has been around people have come up with various kinds of 3rd part software to remedy the shortcomings in XP or to improve some features even more. There really isn't anything there that Vista provides that isn't possible under XP too.
Bitlocker? Well, do a google search. You'll find dozens of apps for XP that allow for harddrive encryption, either partially or fully.
Gartner stated
that “organizations actively employing power management functionality can expect to save $38.3 thou-
sand per year compared to unmanaged ones (based on the number of new machines).” In addition, “total
PC power consumption per year for a well-managed 2,500 PC strong organization is 50 percent lower than
for an unmanaged one” according to the same Gartner Report
Well duh. But XP does support power-management, too.
There is also talk about the Windows Search. I have never used it nor seen it in use, but I imagine the Google Desktop search and similar are more or less just as good for those people who need such features.
I dunno, I don't run a company nor do I work as an administrator, but I get the feeling there really isn't any specially good reason for companies to migrate to Vista. I hear the remote deploy features are better, but is that good enough of a reason? Most companies have everything needed for XP already in place, any additional software, everything has been tested and proven during all those years Vista was in development..