NIST hit MS Vista with a BAN stick!

[SSSnail]

PWNED!!!!

According to the formal agenda for the meeting, NIST technology workers will attend a session entitled "Windows Vista Security" to discuss "the current ban of this operating system on NIST networks." NIST officials weren't immediately available to comment.

Baawaahahahahahaha..... haha

 

[OutHouse]

yea more MS hostility.

 

[FoBoT]

what

I :heart: Vista

 

[tm37]

There is nothing saying WHY

It could be they are running some sort of proprietary package that does not work on vista.

I have software that will not run so I have not upgraded.

 

[Hyperlite]

They just want to attract attention.

 

[Aikouka]

Vista's the only MS OS that natively supports (out of the box) the f'd up new DST... NIST should like it .

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: tm37
There is nothing saying WHY

It could be they are running some sort of proprietary package that does not work on vista.

I have software that will not run so I have not upgraded.

same here. once I can get the go ahead from the 7 or so different software companies we use ill switch over slowly.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what

I :heart: Vista

Try using it in a business environment and you wont. Pretty much the most unstable os since winME. I use it for testing purposes as my main machine at work just so i can get a feel for it and i am ready to pull my damn hair out it is so buggy

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Try using it in a business environment and you wont. Pretty much the most unstable os since winME. I use it for testing purposes as my main machine at work just so i can get a feel for it and i am ready to pull my damn hair out it is so buggy

I use it on a day to day basis with absolutely 0 crashes or bugs. I don't know what you're complaining about.

 

[zoiks]

:thumbsup:

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what

I :heart: Vista

Try using it in a business environment and you wont. Pretty much the most unstable os since winME. I use it for testing purposes as my main machine at work just so i can get a feel for it and i am ready to pull my damn hair out it is so buggy

maybe you aren't using it right

have you installed the games? try parble place, that is a fun game

 

[n0cmonkey]

Word of NIST's Windows Vista ban comes a week after InformationWeek revealed that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration have both imposed similar blackouts on the operating system, as well as on Microsoft Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.

USDOT and the FAA have banned it. For now. They're in a testing period with both Vista and IE 7. NIST is probably doing the same thing, making sure their stuff works before committing to a MAJOR rollout like that.

Of course the FAA may be a bit more serious about it than most:

FAA CIO Dave Bowen told InformationWeek that he may forego upgrading the aviation safety agency's computers to Microsoft's latest offerings in favor of desktops running some combination of Linux and Google Apps, Google's new online suite of office productivity tools.

To recap: Wait and see if the ban is permanent.

 

[stash]

With all the regulations around document/email retention, storage of PII and the issue of FOIA requests and/or Congressional suboenas, a CIO of a government agency would have to think long and hard before deciding to store their data on servers they don't control.

 

[Griffinhart]

http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowspaul...D/95427/windowspaulthurrott_95427.html

It's not permanent.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: tm37
There is nothing saying WHY

Our government has a long track record of intelligent well planned... No wait. Our govornment wants to place the most efficient computing power possible on the desks of it's well paid emplyee.. No wait. Our public sector govornments highly paid IT staff has.. No wait. Our govornment has decided that it will not buy American products like those produced at Microsoft and.. No wait. ******, I dunno.


All funniness aside: It's a new OS and it's a BIIIIIG rollout. Having low to mid level managers willy-nilly rolling out something new could cause chaos. For something this big planning must be involved. Microsoft will help them when the time comes.

Good fud troll though. The pwnd part was an especially intelligent touch.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: FoBoT
what

I :heart: Vista

Try using it in a business environment and you wont. Pretty much the most unstable os since winME. I use it for testing purposes as my main machine at work just so i can get a feel for it and i am ready to pull my damn hair out it is so buggy

I call bullsh1t on you. We have a company of over 60,000 people and it's been running here for months on *almost every* desktop. My work box hasn't crashed once since it was setup in November. Maybe you and your IT dept just suck?

Comparing Vista to ME is so noob.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Good fud troll though. The pwnd part was an especially intelligent touch.

No, it would've been good if he said: M$ Vi$ta PWNED!

 

[SSSnail]

Yeah, I'm sure NIST are full of idiots. :roll:

 

[Nothinman]

Having low to mid level managers willy-nilly rolling out something new could cause chaos. For something this big planning must be involved. Microsoft will help them when the time comes.

Yea, there's always managers, directors, VPs, etc that think they're technical and want to run the latest thing without any regards for what that entails so the only way to stop them and handle the migration in a controlled fashion is to tell everyone they can't touch it until it's approved.

 

[pcgeek11]

Maybe you and your IT dept just suck?

Now that is funny!!

pcgeek11

 

[BladeVenom]

I don't see why all the Vista fanboys get so worked up about this. Lots of businesses aren't going to touch Vista right now. Even Intel said they weren't going to use it before service pack one came out.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
I don't see why all the Vista fanboys get so worked up about this. Lots of businesses aren't going to touch Vista right now. Even Intel said they weren't going to use it before service pack one came out.

Vista is the most secure and productive Windows OS. Companies are already preparing to migrate to Windows Vista Business/Enterprise and Longhorn server. I know one company ordered 7000 licenses just to setup a test environment. This is not fanboyism you cannot run XP much longer, sooner or later you will be using Vista. People always yell and shout everytime an OS is released by Microsoft, i suggest you take your time and study how technology works indepth instead of wasting your breath.

 

[Pwnbroker]

Originally posted by: tm37
There is nothing saying WHY

Actually, it says:

Among other things, Bowen said he is concerned that Windows Vista may be incompatible with many software applications already in use at the FAA.

I have found this to be true with a lot of the programs I have. Nero 6.6, Nero 7 Essentials, Guildwars, Epson original and latest drivers, etc...

But then again, I'm using the 64 bit Vista, and a lot of my incompatibilities stem from that.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Aberforth

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
I don't see why all the Vista fanboys get so worked up about this. Lots of businesses aren't going to touch Vista right now. Even Intel said they weren't going to use it before service pack one came out.

Vista is the most secure and productive Windows OS. Companies are already preparing to migrate to Windows Vista Business/Enterprise and Longhorn server. I know one company ordered 7000 licenses just to setup a test environment. This is not fanboyism you cannot run XP much longer, sooner or later you will be using Vista. People always yell and shout everytime an OS is released by Microsoft, i suggest you take your time and study how technology works indepth instead of wasting your breath.

I'm currently at a company of over 150.000 employees, and like many other big companies they're waiting with Vista.
Nothing special with Vista about that though, any sane company of considerable size would wait, upgrading 150.000+ desktops isn't exactly cheap, having to downgrade because some archaic application that everyone depends on would kinda suck.

Would be the same if they were running Linux, OS/2, or whatever else you may prefer, it's just common sense really.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Aberforth

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
I don't see why all the Vista fanboys get so worked up about this. Lots of businesses aren't going to touch Vista right now. Even Intel said they weren't going to use it before service pack one came out.

Vista is the most secure and productive Windows OS. Companies are already preparing to migrate to Windows Vista Business/Enterprise and Longhorn server. I know one company ordered 7000 licenses just to setup a test environment. This is not fanboyism you cannot run XP much longer, sooner or later you will be using Vista. People always yell and shout everytime an OS is released by Microsoft, i suggest you take your time and study how technology works indepth instead of wasting your breath.

I'm currently at a company of over 150.000 employees, and like many other big companies they're waiting with Vista.
Nothing special with Vista about that though, any sane company of considerable size would wait, upgrading 150.000+ desktops isn't exactly cheap, having to downgrade because some archaic application that everyone depends on would kinda suck.

Would be the same if they were running Linux, OS/2, or whatever else you may prefer, it's just common sense really.

Nothing like losing payroll...