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Originally Posted by -HAL-  I'm not very surprised by this.
Governmental agencies wants stable platforms, and Vista probably wont be close to that in at least a year++...
Here in Norway the Defence Forces have just upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows XP (less than a year ago)..  |
Actually Vista is very stable (not as say Linux, but its better than XP). The problem with Vista is the backwards compatibility of software. Forget about older Win 3.1 and Dos apps, there are plenty of WinXP SP2 apps that simply don't run.
This is why the FEDS are not upgrading. You'd expect the US government IT systems are state of the art, but they are not. The DOD for example, runs plenty of legacy applications (the Great wall of China is more recent). Because of this its too risky to install VISTA.
The lack of support for VISTA is another problem. Currently most of the drivers I use are BETAs, there are few WHQL drivers out there right now...