Business had been avoiding vista as much as possible since the day it was release, today Forrester Research has come up with a report offering five reason companies should adopt Vista right away. Are these reasonable enough for companies to switch? Let’s look at it one by one.

Reason #1: For large businesses, there’s no viable alternative.
Mac is not really for business, linux is for servers, my question is, is vista for businesses? Why do you want to adopt something that brokes 50% of your programs, does Forrester wants you to update all your program (this is madness!!!)? How much is it for a company to retrain most of their staff coz vista’s user experience feels at lot different from what those people had been used to. For system admin, how troublesome is the “Are you sure you want to do this?” feature and those networking problems. For programmer, how many programs will run or can you run the applications that makes your program? Even notepad++ hangs on vista.

Reason #2: Businesses need to stay current with Microsoft and ISV support.
Okay most of them do need to stay with Microsoft, but what’s with vista? You can stay with Ms but not with Vista, i mean they are still a lot of business that are using win2000 coz they think its reasonable to use that. Vista sp1 still didn’t fix the compatibility problem, they may fix the security and make it stable but what’s the use of the OS when most of your software are not running? So for this reason, i would have to say stay with MS but not with vista.

Reason #3: There’s a lot of uncertainty around Windows XP availability after June.
People downgrade to XP coz there is no reason for Vista’s existence, do you think these people/business will switch back? First impression last, the reason they downgrade is because they feel vista is the worst thing that had happen to them, telling them to switch back is as hard as telling them to use linux or mac. It just doesn’t make sense in a business point of view to use stuff that you know had broke you in the past. Say you have a business and you use brand A and brand A cause troubles to your business, in the future when most of the people say brand A has upgraded a lot, how hard is it for a business to believe that?

Reason #4: There’s even more uncertainty around Windows 7.
Businesses had a strong choice here, and they can choose to stay with XP or wait for Windows 7. That’s all. And the pressure is not on those businesses but on Microsoft. Businessman now adays had learned something about technology which is you cannot enforce them to use something that they dont want to use, if they want to use it they will use it. And let’s face it, it’s a lot harder to please businesses these days then the past, most of them would rather wait then use something they don’t consider worthy to use.

Reason #5: Windows Vista’s feature/function improvements should make ongoing operations easier.
Hahah, Security wise, okay Vista is more secure (until hackers think otherwise), Reliability wise, its not, it’s one of the worse, imagine writing a simple mail and everything hangs, now that’s reliable. Now imagine for business, copying thousand of files then suddenly on the middle of it Vista hangs, now that more reliable than windows 95! User experience wise, if you’re the type of person who love to see your computer hangs a lot then you’ll love Vista. Well come to think of it, its actually an advantage for employee coz they could just tell their bosses my Vista hangs so i didn’t get my report on time. That could be something!!!

Conclusion
Vista is just not right for anything from households to media center to businesses, as long as they don’t fix the compatibility issues and the memory problems, i will still see Vista as a useless OS. I use XP, Ubuntu and Mac Leopard and for windows, XP is still the best. I have to downgrade 3 vista for my dad’s business just to get some application working PROPERLY and working smoothly. I’m not suggesting you to switch to linux or mac, but just don’t switch to Vista, XP will stay as long as there are people/business using it. MS extended VB6 a lot of time from 2005 to the end of 2008 coz a lot of programmer are still using it, now do you think MS will not extend support for XP coz they want to push vista? If so then it only means the empire is committing a suicide.