Microsoft warns those who skip Vista for Windows 7 will be at higher risk
By Mike Ferro
Microsoft has indicated that those who have decided to skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 could be at a higher risk for facing problems. These problems are said to vary from security issues to forestalling the inevitable issues one would face on Vista.
According to InformationWeek, Microsoft released a white paper discussing the risks of skipping Vista in hopes of upgrading to Windows 7 in the near future. Microsoft Vice President Mike Nash writes in the paper that skipping Vista could have:
“implications for security, support, and regulatory compliance and reduce flexibility in the face of changing business requirements,”
Let’s delve a little deeper into what Nash means by security and support issues.
Basically, Nash is talking about all of the security extras that could be missed by waiting. By waiting until 2009 for Windows 7, businesses would loose the opportunity to take advantage of all the security enhancements available in Vista currently.
Also, he describes the use of outdated tools and applications by staying on XP as well as the loss of relevance and support for those outdated programs during the switch to Windows 7.
It seems Nash is implying that upgrading to Vista and facing all the headaches now would ensure less of a hassle when businesses upgrade to Windows 7 in the future. This is like saying you can have the headache now or have it later.
This basically would be the same thing in either case. Nash should evaluate why businesses are reluctant to give up XP for Vista, because those reasons may far outweigh any benefits Vista may offer currently.
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June 13th, 2008
“Microsoft has indicated those that have decided to skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 could be at a higher risk for” …migrating to other operating systems like Red Hat and other fine Linux programs.
June 13th, 2008
Quote: “By waiting until 2009 for Windows 7, businesses would loose the opportunity to take advantage of all the security enhancements available in Vista currently”. Enhancements like the excellent and widely-praised UAC, of which Raymond Ozzie said “yes, we know it annoys users - it was designed to be annoying”. With geniuses like Mr Ozzie working at Redmond, it is certainly no surprise that Linux is unable to make inroads in the operating system market, and the open source crowd must be having conniptions at thought that Windows 7 is certain to be *even better* than Vista! (Perhaps Windows 7 will double the resource requirements - I suppose this would make it twice as good).
September 20th, 2008
Simple… skip Windows 7 and wait for a real replacement