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Upgrade to Windows Vista? |
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February 2007 |
Vista is now available. There is no hurry, why? Thanks to Douglas Harre of the Ministry of Education, we have obtained a copy of an official interim report advising the education sector in England whether schools should deploy Vista or how soon. The report was published by Becta of Coventry in January 2007 based on work done by Oakleigh Consulting. Becta is the English Government’s lead partner in the strategic development and delivery of ICT for schools. We reproduce some key points for public sharing below.
- Oakleigh identified some 180 new features of Vista over Win XP. The new features, while definitely adding value in the areas of security and reliability, did not justify a rapid adoption.
| Must haves |
0% |
| Should/Could haves |
60% |
| No benefits |
40% |
- Much of the current ICT infrastructure could not run Vista even with the Aero graphics engine turned off (55%) and virtually none of the current infrastructure could run Vista with Aero switched on (between 0 & 6%).
- Vista did not perform better on the medium/high specification PC (compared to XP) Becta concluded that early deployment of Vista is considered a high risk. Becta recommended that Microsoft should facilitate a few pilot activities to clarify what the benefits of deploying Vista in an educational institution would be. Becta will revisit Vista in 2008 to see if factors have changed and if it can be deployed in 2009.
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