Vista For Schools?

nffc10 said:
Should schools be made to upgrade to Windows Vist although their curent os is doing fine?
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Considering I work IT for a school system and would have to actually be involed in a massive roll over upgrade from XP to Vista, I say no. I would rather us wait about two years when a service pack finally comes out and its stable, and most of the release security bugs are fixed, then update.

We are a rather large school system spanning over three cities, with over 35,000 users and over 10,000 computers. It would be a HUGE pain to roll over to vista at release, and on top of that be a pain to have to support all the bugs. Then have to train everyone on the new features. Its not happening.

I agree with what the article says, there is no feature that is really worth the upgrade. Not to mention I think that the new UI looks a lot like OS X..........
 
Didn't click the link, but why would a school need vista now. There isn't that many new features that will be exploited by a school student.

I personally think that anyone who buys vista at its release isn't that bright. Vista will be buggy, uses lots of ram and nothing yet is really "Vista only" at the moment.
 
Exactly what i was thinking jonyboy, so why are they pushing so hard to get Vista in schools?
 
Burgerbob said:
Our school is just switching to XP from 2K. I dont think we will make the change for a while.
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Woah, your school is soooooo hi-tec.:o Our school only has Win 2K and they might upgrade to Xp, but definitley not Vista because it is closing in 2009.:mad:
 
Well my old school is still running win2k. But the school I'm at right now has been running XP for at least 3 years now, as long as I've been here. I don't believe they'll upgrade to vista until at least the 2009 school year.
 
I can always remember at my old school (i was 10) i had a teacher who thought he was amazing on computers, he also thought he had one of the best computers out. Of course everyone believed him because we were only 10, now looking back it was the year 2001, why if you have the best computer would you only just be managing to run Windows 95?

He was old if that compensates for anything.
 
in australia my school like have full money but never spend it on computers so i think the school computers going to be staying on winxp.

PS my school sucks dosent even build air cons when its like 40 something degrees
 
schools and students get lisences for $30 a piece

it's not a matter of $, it's a matter of whether or not the hardware will run the system effectively, and whether or not it's worth it to upgrade other programs as well.
 
school uses all xps but the damn network is so crappy that the computer would lag and not respond for a few seconds because the application will respond again.
 
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