http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/ ... dows-vista

Many ask 'What's wrong with XP?'

Well as its only referring to parliaments PC's that's about 1% of governments PC's ........

It is about as 'government' as it gets I spose

What is right with XP? Is was a pile of doggy dos when released and it has a dreadful user experience. Its only saving grace is a whole generation of users who don't know any better...

Hit the Nail on the head there.

I remember having Xp and the amount of trouble I had updating the basterd, the amount of viruses I had and general problems......
Got vista before SP1 and I've had no problems with it, just had to disable the peripheral crap they put in it that really serves no purpose but was put there for those apple enclined users to be enticed. The UAC barely bothers me as it did many.

But I definately wouldn't recommend Vista for any public and government PCs since XP is faster on such generally low spec computers. Plus imagine running vista on a computer with <1 GB of ram whilst it simultaniously handles all the extra software and networking they all laden public and government computers with. I've had the unfortunate experience of super slow computers

The main thing they need to get is IE8 and Firefox 3! Holy mother of hell how annoying it is with all these computers running IE6 with no tabbed browsing, no tabbed browsing. Tabbed brosing is the sliced bread of the information world nay it is better than sliced bread. Fact of the matter it that tabbed browsing sh!ts sliced bread and on everything that was the best thing since it.... and oh even chuck norris but not clint eastwood ofcourse. /rant

I don't deny it's a piece of crap, but then Vista doesn't do anything above and beyond XP really for most people I expect, and I don't know anyone who didn't wipe it and go back to XP, bar my uncle who doesn't really care anyway

Considering that Windows 7 is now out why don't they skip Vista and jump to Windows 7 which is apparently much better. I understand that they need to test everything before upgrading but one jump rather than two may be more sensible.

I wiped all my XP machines and installed Vista... The only one that went back was my old laptop, because the 2GB RAM upgrade was duff and I had to put the original 512MB back in!

Unfortunately Citrix is all the rage now, which makes XP even more unbearable than it is when it's installed locally.