NIST Bans Windows Vista
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The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology has banned Windows Vista from their own networks.
NIST is a non-regulatory agency of the US Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration and is charged with promoting US innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology.
In a new setback to Microsoft’s public sector business, the influential National Institute of Standards and Technology has banned the software maker’s Windows Vista operating system from its internal computing networks, according to an agency document obtained by InformationWeek…
Word of NIST’s Windows Vista ban comes a week after InformationWeek revealed that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration have both imposed similar blackouts on the operating system, as well as on Microsoft Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.
I have a feeling this is the only the beginning of Vista bans. Vista just doesn’t offer anything new that that business and government cannot operate without. And, when you consider the extremely high upgrade costs (in terms of licensing, required hardware upgrades just to support Vista, and training) most government agencies and corporations will decide that the cost of the upgrade cannot be justified.
[Microsoft Suffers Latest Blow As NIST Bans Windows Vista]
[tags]Microsoft Vista, Microsoft, NIST, DoT, FAA[/tags]
2 Comments
Rick Hogan
March 15th, 2007
at 4:54pm
The way I see it, the government is almost always wrong about almost everything. If the government says it is bad, then in the real world, it is most likely good. I would never trust the government’s opinion on anything.
Rick
M.Miyojim
April 12th, 2007
at 2:52am
“If the government says it is bad, then in the real world, it is most likely good. I would never trust the government’s opinion on anything.”
Will you test Vista yourself and report back, without prejudice?