If you recall ME was a disaster too.

Glad I didnt listen then. Not listening now. The only time Ill upgrade my OS is when the bugs from a current OS are fixed and its no longer a clunky resource hog.

The only reason I would consider installing VISTA now is for Bioshock. But the whole directx 10 for vista only really gets to me (yeah I know abou the hacks to make it run for XP)

Also, the fact that most third party applications are not working, or not working as well under VISTA is a huge factor.

If you recall, most of the world is still using windows 98/2000/XP. The only time you have security issues with a computer are when the end users are not educated on security and/or no spyware/virus/firewalls are installed. With the lastest virus scanners/firewalls an old OS is almost as secure as a new one. In any case I would rather go with an older OS with known exploits I can account for rather than VISTA with its new undiscovered bugs and exploits.

Whining, as you put it is what businesses must do especially Small/medium sized ones, to keep themselves in profit, any even slightly technicaly savvy IT dept should be whipped silly for even contemplating putting this garbage anywhere near a PC.

Please stop commenting on technical issues far out of your depth, your giving the rest of us professionals a bad name.

Back in the day when in IT at a large pharma company we had laptops running Win98 and 95 … desktops were on NT. XP? Nope. Because the move to XP would break some needed apps. The cost to make the update was much, much greater than staying a little behind the curve.

So, yes, companies will get to Vista, but waiting a year is just good, prudent IT management.

Heck if a company is on XP … I’d see how Vista SP1 shakes out, then consider upgrades, but only on systems where the benefit is real. Given the hardware requirements of Vista, I expect it will be a long time before we see widespread Vista deployments.