According to InformationWeek, The U.S. Department of Transportation has banned upgrades to Microsoft Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007. This ban will be for an indefinite period of time. According to InformationWeek:
The agency has an “indefinite moratorium” on upgrades because “there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading,” CIO Daniel Mintz says in a Jan. 19 staff memo obtained by InformationWeek. In addition, there are “specific reasons not to upgrade,” he says, referring to compatibility with apps, upgrade costs, and an upcoming move to a new headquarters. The ban applies to 15,000 DOT users who now use Windows XP Professional. The memo indicates that a similar ban is in effect at the Federal Aviation Administration, which has 45,000 desktop users.
A friend of mine who is running Vista on a new laptop computer (because there was no other option when purchasing the machine) has had nothing but trouble. The number of bugs in Microsoft Vista are apparently staggering, and compatibility issues with software packages are out of control. What a nightmare!
THANK YOU for posting this. VISTA is a NIGHTMARE!
I agree. Vista is a NIGHTMARE!
Hi Matthew! Glad to see you made it.
YES VISTA Is a nightmare more and more each day. And a HUGE memory hog. Have you had problems with it saying “not enough memory”???
I have 86.5 G with 2/3 of the memory used up (and I just got it in January and most of my programs aren’t even on it — they won’t run with Vista). Not only is Vista a nightmare it is also a MEMORY HOG!
Well Vista came out with some new patches. They have been helpful, but it is certainly not 100% yet.
I will say that Vista uses a LOT of ram and I have to reboot a couple times a day.