Anilrgowda

As with all new things, especially something as huge as an operating system, adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista is slow. It has been commercially available to businesses for about a month now, but that month has come and gone with too much stirring the pot by enterprises. It isn't hard to see why, the adoption of a new OS is painful, even if the thing is rock solid. There is the user's learning curve to consider, the IT staff and time to install, support, and manage the new operating system, and tons of other factors like interoperability with peripherals, driver issues, proprietary systems that must be rewritten to play nice. Once Vista is adopted in enterprises, it will yield some benefits for those who take the leap, but many companies don't want to put their people through that until Vista is stable, and patched with at least a service pack or two. That could take years.

The theory that Microsoft released Vista in November so that they would have time for vendors to develop solutions that would work with Vista might be close to the truth, maybe Microsoft is hoping that by releasing Vista now the drivers and updates will be ready by the time Vista hits the world's stage and comes to a PC near you in February 2007. Wouldn't it be nice if the OS was at least a bit closer to having lots of stuff work with it when you get it in your mailbox or at your local PC hardware store?

Why software is released and when is always tricky to predict, so here's to hoping that there is some good reason why Vista is out now, and perhaps there will be a slightly brighter light shining on kick-off for consumers. It would be nice. When are you planning on upgrading to Vista, or are you planning to upgrade at all? Let me know what you plan