{"id":6920,"date":"2009-02-12T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:55:00","slug":"don-t-skip-vista-says-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/6920-don-t-skip-vista-says-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t skip Vista, says Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses planning to skip the upgrade to Vista and go straight to Windows 7 will potentially cause more trouble for themselves than they plan. <\/p>\n<p>This is according to Gavriella Schuster, a member of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Product Management team, who issued the warning on her <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/business\/archive\/2009\/02\/11\/guidance-on-windows-deployments-for-business-customers.aspx\">blog<\/a> yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Schuster said that while Microsoft was aware that many users were electing to skip Vista, there were many potential and unseen pitfalls in doing this. <\/p>\n<p>Chief among these, she said, was that by leapfrogging Vista, users may find themselves with applications that are discontinued on XP but still not available for Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Schuster also warned that Windows 7 may not be ready for some time yet. Although there is a beta version already in release, a date for a final release has not been set. Most observers have predicted a late 2009 release but this could well stretch to an unspecified date in 2010. Microsoft has previously said that it would release Windows 7 &quot;when it was ready&quot;, a hint that the operating system may not actually be on the brink of release. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the attempt to ramp up Vista sales, Schuster&#8217;s warnings may fall on deaf ears, however. There is nothing preventing users upgrading XP to Windows 7, so long as the applications they require are supported. And with a Beta version of Windows 7 already in circulation, many users will be convinced a final release can&#8217;t be too far behind. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=158070\"><strong>Vista and Windows 7<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users shouldn&#039;t skip Vista and go straight to Windows 7, warns Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}