Question for IT people

[Czar]

There are two vista installs at my workplace. One on my laptop, the other is on a coworkers desktop. My desktop still has xp and I dont plan on upgrading that one to vista just yet. The rest is all WinXP with servers being mostly Win2003r2, some Win2003 and one or two Win2000.

No plan to impliment Vista as of now since I doubt most of hour inhouse written software would work (havent done much testing yet). Maybe late next year we will start installing Vista for some users, might upgrade laptop users sooner because of bitlocker.

I'm realy liking Vista on my laptop and at home from a user experiance but from an administrative viewpoint I'm not liking it that much, too many stupid wizards ontop of simple things like control panel. When we do impliment vista it will be entirely configured with group policies thats for sure.

 

[Bateluer]

People had the same aversions to XP at its release. Its true that businesses are slow to change, especially those with specialized software and applications, however, in a few years, most will have some Vista machines.

As MS refines Vista and slowly phases out XP, everybody will be running Vista.

Now, if MS continues with their rumored plan to release a new OS every 2 years, then there will be a problem. The user base will be split among three or 4 OSs after 6 years. Vista, Vienna, and XP, with a stubborn few still clinging to Win2k.

 

[oddyager]

We just started ordering a few Vista machines to test in our environment but machines going into production are only XP. I imagine once MS sets a timeframe where XP support will become a PIA we'll start moving towards Vista. Assuming we work out all the kinks.

 

[Linflas]

100% XP here but I work for a public school system. We are currently told we will not be moving to Vista for this school year and most likely not for the 2008-2009 school year either. I just shoved the last 98 machines out the door during the 2006-2007 school year so I suspect no Vista until we can no longer mass purchase XP machines.

 

[Kelemvor]

I don't know anyone that is upgrading to Vista already. Most companies wait for at least one SP to get released before they even consider it. And obviously lots that did aren't happy since MS is offering an XP Downgrade to get back to a stable OS.

 

[trmiv]

99.9% XP here. We do have a few Vista machines, but they are only for developers and they are unsupported by ITS. There was talk of a small scale test roll-out of Vista soon, but now I doubt that happens. It looks like we will be sticking with XP for awhile.

 

[Patt]

We're mostly XP here ... Vista on nothing ... 2000 on a few legacy machines. Won't be going to Vista for at least 3-4 years.

 

[lokiju]

Yep.

I'm on Vista now and we have the licenses for it, but are not planning on rolling it out anytime soon.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
With XP support dying off, I am buying only Vista machines.

Dying off? They just stopped supporting 98 last summer.

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Yes it sucks, most of my current solutions do not work. But gotta move forward. No matter how much Vista sucks, I can't avoid going there forever.

I am sure people thought that about ME too.

 

[JDMnAR1]

We have a few Vista machines for testing, but we have too many vendor apps that will have to be certified before we even think about ditching XP, in addition of course to our homegrown stuff. All of our user desktops are still preloaded with XP.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

for a large company that just shelled out millions for XP liscenses only a couple years ago. Any competent CIO would not be at all interested in changing to vista. There isn't any valid reason to shell out millions of more dollars unnecessarily.

What is the business value?

Keep XP pro for as long as MS supports it.

 

[RichUK]

One of the contracts I?m currently working on is in the process of migrating 20,000 user from 80% NT4, 20% 2000, 80% NT4 server, 20% server 2000 to XP Pro/2003. These users won't see vista for a very, very long time.

 

[classy]

Where I am at presently we are staying with XP.

 

[PlatinumGold]

most of my apps don't work on Vista yet.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
for a large company that just shelled out millions for XP liscenses only a couple years ago. Any competent CIO would not be at all interested in changing to vista. There isn't any valid reason to shell out millions of more dollars unnecessarily.

What is the business value?

Keep XP pro for as long as MS supports it.

Bingo.

 

[yuppiejr]

We're 100% XP in our production desktop environment (probably 50,000+ workstations) with no plans to go Vista even though our ELA means doing so would be at no additional cost. There simply isn't any compelling cost savings or productivity gains that justify the costs to make the jump to a new desktop OS "just because." The problem with Vista is it doesn't really do anything that a properly managed XP workstation + some add-in applications can do today on existing hardware. Microsoft did a great job with XP, and as much as people love to jump on the bash M$ bandwagon the fact is it's a mature, stable O/S that does everything most people need on commonly available hardware years after it's initial release.

If anything, I see the next big desktop O/S related change in our environment being a switch to virtual workstation images and server hosted virtual apps. If history is any indication of future strategy I expect we'll be running XP as long as possible and skip Vista entirely in favor of the next big Microsoft O/S to squeeze the most value possible out of our existing desktop infrastructure investment.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: ric1287
smart ones are. Vista should still be in the testing phase for 99% of places until EVERY issue is resolved IMO.

Which version of Windows currently has EVERY issue resolved?

MotionMan

 

[sdifox]

No way we are switching to Vista.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I work for a fortune 100 company. We started switching to XP in the middle of 2004, and have a 3 year upgrade cycle, so there were some people that didn't get XP until this year. I suspect the same thing will happen with Vista.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Our vendor only supports XP Pro. Not dumping a few hundred grand in new software and training just to find one that supports Vista

 

[KB]

Its not even on the radar. XP is here to stay.

 

[markgm]

XP will be here for the foreseeable future. Upgrades like this cost millions and take loads of time.

 

[Saint Nick]

XP is at the company I work with until next year.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: yuppiejr


If anything, I see the next big desktop O/S related change in our environment being a switch to virtual workstation images and server hosted virtual apps.

worf

 

[KaChow]

I work on a DoD contract so I don't expect to see Vista any time soon. We didn't even start using 2003 until well after SP1 was released.