It seems that enterprise customers are indeed interested in Vista not for its fancy new interface, new search abilities or anything else it brings to the table except for the enhanced security or rather, enhanced for the time being.

Of 300 IT professionals that were surveyed at Information Week, 217 are considering making the move over to Vista, of those 14% want to get their hands on UAC (User Account Protection) which requires an administrator password for just about every file operation under the sun. But 22% just want improved functionality.

The main problem with Vista is excruciatingly slow file transfers among large files around 800MB or higher, it takes a long time or at least longer than the transfer would have taken on XP. Businesses move around a lot of data and some of those are bound to be large files.

Vista takes even worse to secure file transfers which is even slower than a regular transfer. Microsoft is promising to fix that with the release of Service Pack 1 which is due at some point later this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if it saw delays, just like Vista did.

The number one concern for these IT professionally types was remote desktop security, all these business types are rushing around trying to find more ways to secure it, or they could just invest in the best operating system on the planet instead.

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 5:31 am under Microsoft, Security, Upgrading, Vista.  Print This Post

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