techrecovery | Apr. 2nd, 2008

Yes, this is a bit off topic but not a request for computer help.

Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has determined that one of the biggest reasons that Vista isn't being adopted is that IT professionals are advising their clients to hold off on upgrading. Apparently they believe that part of the issue is misinformation. My company is one they have asked to send engineers to Redmond to meet with some of the team that developed vista and discuss the reasons we are not advising clients to adopt vista.

I am quite sure that many of you have opinions on this issue, as do I, and I would love to get as many perspectives as I can so that this can be a very productive exchange of ideas.

Please note that "vista sucks" is not a productive comment. Why does it suck? What sucky experiences have you had? What could be improved to make it suck less? Who else is doing it better that they could take lessons from? (ie. UAC has been done in linux for much longer and they do it much better)

This is, in my opinion, a very good step for Microsoft and I want to make it as useful as possible for them so that they will continue to listen to the IT community and make greatly needed improvements to their systems.

EDIT: I will definitely be telling Microsoft's engineers that it doesn't matter whose fault a particular issue (third party software, etc) is because it's still something keeping people from adopting their technology and is thus their problem.