Cooper on Business Adoption of Windows Vista

In the past few months, a number of media outlets (Information Week CNET News.com and Microsofts channel partners, to mention but a few cases), the report said that sales of Microsoft Vista far more than the previous business operating systems, they created in Windows 2000. As security professionals, I have six reasons to be less optimistic: 1. If you remember version of Windows 2000 Professional Edition, you will may recall just how difficult it is to get it to run on the desktop. Opportunities , you upgrade from Windows 95 or Windows 98, rather than the Windows NT. This means that you need to be applied to the users understanding of accounts and a totally different environment than what you have already run.

These issues do the same vision. However, Microsoft is nice words overlooking is the version of Windows XP Professional Edition, specifically for corporate users, tired of running Windows 9X because they can not get their environment running on Windows 2000 Professional, or do not like Windows 2000 Professional Edition ran on their own notebook computers . Windows XP Professional Edition is the last OS is targeted enterprises, and in Windows 2000, Microsoft would like to Information Week unbelievable.

I can almost guarantee that enterprises through Windows XP Professional Edition is quite fast in the adoption of Vista has been, or may at any time . But then, this comparison does not send the message that Microsoft PR machine would like to send about Vista, will it? 2. Microsoft and its choice of the fundamental renewal of a licence and what is installation of the system. Annual leave, it is necessary to update or dismissal system. One thing is absolutely it is worth noting that through innovative permit their choice, select customers can continue to use their Windows XP SP2s professional DVD to the installation of a new system - or O EM manufacturers dedicated customer habits, the establishment of a new equipment shipped, avoid Vista, Osama bin Laden (which they had to re-install, function and rest of the environment).

3. The Gartner and IDC has forecast that by the end of this year that the information information¡­¡­ magazine wrote then, these companies have been wrong before.

Their speculative activities and to take into account independent software vendors, the Vista version. Now, there are more than a mirror of the smoke, said to Vista version. A large number of ISV that they have a Vista version or they can run Vista today. What they do not say is what you must do In order to use their products in the Vista (such as "running as an administrator") or to what extent, these versions are really "Vista specific" rather than is not simply a "Vista-compatible." Microsoft is a set of their own here. If we get the ISV Vista version is a lot of "Vista-compatible," then almost all hard and good security work, Microsoft has invested Vista will be transferred to the halfway . We can see that criminals are complete speculation speed up the stack, as it is hardening the operating system and browser, application to come out like neon signs of the subject. If I can not let my crime code installed, you double-click on e-mail attachments bar, I have I malicious Software looks like a cool new things, and then you run the setup program.

But if Microsoft retain its Vista logo apply only to be re-encoded proper use of the capacity of Vista, d not Vista, logod - E TM, no stampede to V ista.

4. When Microsoft, in its pre-publication survey "excitedness" anyone thought to the hospital, the specific version of the Vista ISV cooperation applications in a reasonable period of time to complete. I like to know that in the end exciting, I know that I am now the excitement has been significantly reduced.

5. As for Microsofts progress in the restoration and new drivers, because have so many blog posts, there is not as many people see In such things. If, when I test the deployment of Vista, in my organization, I have realized that there are no printer driver for all, I printer companies will be I hope you check into a blog entries updated? I repeated inspections, HP site, I have to know whether the one-year-old printer now has a Vista drivers. I have checked about 15 times, so far, in November, is still said, "This is Comment on" br> list printers, we want to, so that drivers, but its not. " You can imagine you with the deployment of new desktop operating system have compatible products? Try to explain to you that your manager X expenditure hours each week trying to find updates existing applications Therefore, they will work vision. Manager, is to say, "Well, let justice In short, the secondary position, for now, catching up with the ISV." 6. Finally, as I have mentioned many times before, people will to Vista from Windows XP. What is wrong with the Windows XP? In most cases, what! Vista, the facts themselves, are not attractive - Although applications to use their new security features, it should have a tremendous appeal. If, however, independent software developers on the serious written security applications, they will do so long before now.

Because they did not do so, in the six years that already exist in Windows XP, Why should we expect them to do so, now Vista here? If you come to rewrite your application, in order to take advantage of Vista security features, why would you? If you do not do so for a similar rewrite Windows XP, and then all of the existing customers complained that the version you to They left a lot of defects! If you do create a new Windows XP version of who you are left in the cold? Most of your customers are still running Windows XP, and will be very pleased to hear that they have been improved version you .

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So, in conclusion, you can see how, This is a very "chicken and egg." Which supremacy - V ista deployment, the specific requirements of the V ista I SV version or specific version of the Vista ISV hope people will be deployed Vista the use of their new security improvements? I believe that is not going to happen. My bet is that we are still waiting for whether the licensing changes from Microsoft over specific customers, or some new killer application , is the only in the Vista (which has no existing Windows XP users). Licensing changes, is extremely unlikely, in view of reserve has been done to sell Microsoft OEM factory. So you can imagine a killer commercial applications will not be made available for Windows XP users? Neither can 1.

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