Sunday, May 27, 2007

Tech Tip 124: Windows Vista Part II - To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade

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After five and half years of non-stop hacking and patching, Microsoft finally got its act together and released the more security conscious Windows Vista in January 2007.  According to Redmond Magazine, Vista is off to a running start, logging in 20 million licenses in its first month of availability and outselling Windows XP in its first two months of existence by 3 million licenses.  That should propel any Microsoft fan to run out and snatch up his or her own copy of the vaunted program – or should it?  Those numbers include new systems that would have come with one OS or another anyway, and, after all, we are talking about Microsoft, king of the vulnerabilities and patch-as-you-go operating systems.  Contrary to what Microsoft would have you believe, old habits die hard.

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