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Newham Borough Council has delayed a major desktop roll-out after hitting a barrier in its 10-year strategic relationship with Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.

The council has put back the deployment of Windows Vista in its new 1,500-desktop corporate head office by 12 months, because of a lack of Vista-certified applications from its third-party suppliers.

As a result, Newham will incur the cost of deploying XP in the new office, only to have to upgrade the machines to Vista at a later date. The council will now roll out Windows XP in March 2008 instead of Vista as originally planned.

Let’s not get too worked out, Vista has a few issues, application certification for your operating system is important, but ultimately you need to establish what’s good for your business, accept/sign off the risk, that an application isn’t ‘Vista certified’, is often more a badge than anything else, I’ve had similar issues with the Windows server operating systems.

Vista is settling down, Microsoft continue to improve it, and hopefully with the new service pack which I’ve been hearing about, performance and reliability should improve.

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