Clients,
The venturi effect is dragging us all towards the VISTA release/upgrade.
I have several thoughts.
First, this will be a good upgrade, you will likely benefit from going to VISTA. If you are purchasing new system, get it with VISTA.
Second, this is going to cost you some _bucks_! Microsoft is a master at extracting money from customers. The Vista upgrade costs are reasonable but when you add the other numbers up, you are going to ask what happened to your wallet.
Here is how this will go. You upgrade to VISTA, you want some of the new, cool features available, which means your Windows 2000 server needs to be upgraded to Windows 2003 ($'s). And you find your Windows 2000 server hardware isn't adequate to run Windows 2003 ($'s). Or you find your Windows 2000 Terminal Server now needs to be upgraded to Windows 2003 server, which requires a 2003 Terminal Server License ($'s). Then you want to have the Windows Live software available. Cool! But you need a Windows 2003 server with the licnensing upgrades ($'s). Can see where I'm headed ($'s)?
I'm not telling you VISTA is bad. I'm just reminding you that Microsoft did not rise to the Fortune 10 on luck. Can you spell licensing ($'s)? And we haven't talked about the interoperability of Microsoft Office file versions or new versions of anti-virus, etc.
Finally we come to the subject of security. The ugly truth is security isn't declared; it's tested. So Microsoft can tell us VISTA is going to be the most secure OS ever. The reality is, until all the hackers in the world have had at it and _failed_, it's not secure. Only time and failure demonstrates something is secure.
I'm not a wet blanket, I'm simply saying to some of us, keep your powerder dry and wait for Service Pack 1.
