http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/if-vistas-so-great-maybe-microsoft-should-pay-for-it/ A SearchITChannel.com blog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/if-vistas-so-great-maybe-microsoft-should-pay-for-it/#comment-615 lancop1 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:40:40 +0000 http://channelmarker.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/29/if-vistas-so-great-maybe-microsoft-should-pay-for-it/#comment-615 Right on target! As the US economy tanks, large software companies who have bet big on Security 2.0 technologies find that they must force feed the market in order to meet their quarterly expectations. Meanwhile, the business user community is under a "don't spend any money" budget mandate that forces them to focus on business-aligned IT objectives, not a major software+hardware refresh that not only doesn't alleviate any pain points but actually can spawn a whole host of new ones. Combine this with IT toolsets & seasoned tech support that is very XP-specific, and all sorts of multi-vendor interoperability issues, and you have a perfect Vista storm. All the PR in the world isn't going to budge the eye of this storm one inch - only time & fully-debugged 3rd party Vista-compatible application updates are going to enlarge the calm at the center where Vista, Windows Server 2008, and multi-vendor NAC/NAP components come together to create a workable Security 2.0 Architecture. Unfortunately for all the big dogs, the little dogs are all laying low for the summer - it's just too darn hot to play. Right on target! As the US economy tanks, large software companies who have bet big on Security 2.0 technologies find that they must force feed the market in order to meet their quarterly expectations. Meanwhile, the business user community is under a “don’t spend any money” budget mandate that forces them to focus on business-aligned IT objectives, not a major software+hardware refresh that not only doesn’t alleviate any pain points but actually can spawn a whole host of new ones. Combine this with IT toolsets & seasoned tech support that is very XP-specific, and all sorts of multi-vendor interoperability issues, and you have a perfect Vista storm. All the PR in the world isn’t going to budge the eye of this storm one inch - only time & fully-debugged 3rd party Vista-compatible application updates are going to enlarge the calm at the center where Vista, Windows Server 2008, and multi-vendor NAC/NAP components come together to create a workable Security 2.0 Architecture. Unfortunately for all the big dogs, the little dogs are all laying low for the summer - it’s just too darn hot to play.

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