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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the latest federal
agency to put a hold on PC upgrades to Windows Vista. NASA has decided
against deploying Microsoft's five-month-old operating system anytime this
year.
The decision puts NASA in company with the Federal Aviation Administration
and the U.S. Department of Transportation, both of which in February
revealed temporary bans on Vista.
NASA has set January 2008 as a "target" for beginning the transition from
Windows XP to Vista, according to a spokesman for the federal agency, which
has approximately 60,000 Windows PCs.
NASA typically waits until a service pack is released for any new operating
system to ensure stability, the spokesman says. (Microsoft has not indicated
if or when it will release a service pack for Vista.) The interim will also
be used to ensure that NASA's applications are compatible with Vista and
that its PCs meet the hardware requirements needed to run the operating
system.
In a meeting with IT professionals and user-group representatives last week
on Microsoft's campus, CEO Steve Ballmer rejected an assertion by a NASA
computer scientist that Vista has been banned by most sectors of the federal
government.
"Vista has been anything but banned from most parts of the U.S. federal
government," Ballmer said, adding that he anticipated near-term adoption in
"a number" of government accounts. He stopped short, however, of naming any
government agencies that are in the process of deploying Vista or about to
do so.
source: winbeta.org
agency to put a hold on PC upgrades to Windows Vista. NASA has decided
against deploying Microsoft's five-month-old operating system anytime this
year.
The decision puts NASA in company with the Federal Aviation Administration
and the U.S. Department of Transportation, both of which in February
revealed temporary bans on Vista.
NASA has set January 2008 as a "target" for beginning the transition from
Windows XP to Vista, according to a spokesman for the federal agency, which
has approximately 60,000 Windows PCs.
NASA typically waits until a service pack is released for any new operating
system to ensure stability, the spokesman says. (Microsoft has not indicated
if or when it will release a service pack for Vista.) The interim will also
be used to ensure that NASA's applications are compatible with Vista and
that its PCs meet the hardware requirements needed to run the operating
system.
In a meeting with IT professionals and user-group representatives last week
on Microsoft's campus, CEO Steve Ballmer rejected an assertion by a NASA
computer scientist that Vista has been banned by most sectors of the federal
government.
"Vista has been anything but banned from most parts of the U.S. federal
government," Ballmer said, adding that he anticipated near-term adoption in
"a number" of government accounts. He stopped short, however, of naming any
government agencies that are in the process of deploying Vista or about to
do so.
source: winbeta.org
