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IT managers in Australia shun Vista hype

31.01.2007
Australian IT managers are not succumbing to the Windows Vista hype, instead opting to run pilots, delay installations, or shun the operating system entirely. The first retail copy of Vista, signed by Bill Gates himself, was sold at midnight on Monday, accompanied by a cable TV countdown and a flurry of media attention.

However, IT managers remain unconvinced of the benefits in upgrading to the resource-hungry platform.

Warringah Council, North of Sydney, has no plans to roll out Vista and is instead concentrating on deploying Windows XP.

The council's acting IT manager Richard McManus said "We don't have any plans at all to install Vista because we are [happy] with our current operating systems. We are continuing to deploy XP on our machines and will stick with that."

St Andrews War Memorial Hospital in Townsville IT manager Anthony Winters, shared McManus' sentiment, stating the hospital is not deploying Vista and has no plans to do so.

Other IT managers, such as the Sydney Foreshore Authority records department coordinator Stephen Parkes, will base installation plans around Vista's updates and potential problems.