Windows Vista

Vista is well named - it's a huge OS ! Lots of changes under the hood, plenty of visible changes as well. As a result, don't even consider it on anything less than a dual core machine with at least 1Gb preferably 2Gb ram. Once you get there though you will never go back to XP. These might sound like heady requirements but the truth is it's difficult to buy a laptop/workstation with anything less these days.

The bad news is that on older hardware (> 1yr) Vista is not such a good choice. It wont so much as run but walk.

It's difficult to think of a compelling business case to upgrade a network of Windows XP workstations. This is the big problem Microsoft face. For the gamer community and home user, upgrading to Vista is a much easier decision.

Finally, for those apps that wont yet run in Vista consider running them in a Virtual PC 2007 (a free download from Microsoft) environment with Windows XP as the Guest OS . This works very well and is exactly what we do here at Konnexion to support eg Intuit Quickbooks.

Contact Konnexion to discuss whether or not Vista is right for your company.