Government agency the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) today said in a report that schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite. Becta also supported use of the international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files. Schools might consider using Vista if rolling out all-new infrastructure, but should not introduce it piecemeal alongside other versions of Windows, or upgrade older machines, said the agency, which is responsible for advising British schools and colleges on their IT use.
Yup, upgrading older machines to Vista is not too smart. Better to get a new system that can handle Vista.
Yup that was the thing about Vista when it was being talked about prior to release. That many of the old or current computers at the time could not handle the Vista program. The schools would need to just keep XP if they have it. Or buy entirely new computers to accomadate the Vista. Obvious respose I know
The main reasons are: 1. Vista is expensive 2. XP is still good 3. Currently, the machines cannot handle Vista to operate at a sufficient rate. Fair enough but in 2 years or so, the schools will change over.
Interesting, but to many problems with Vista, it is best to avoid it ! Microsoft, must be feeling sour !
Well, I spoke to a school computing teacher about this a couple of weeks ago. As it turns out, BECTA are reluctant to advise schools to upgrade to Vista until an official MS Vista examination is available, such as the current MCDST, MCSE exams, etc. Now, I find it difficult to believe my school teachers had such qualifications as I had more of an idea about how Windows architecture works than they did. Yeah, I was about 13, hah.
The MCSE is still based on Windows 2000 at least since the last time I look at it, it has an "upgrade" of another two papers for Windows 2003, I think there may still be sometime to wait for an upgrade upgrade to Vista.
Good for them, why wast money like that. Many people don't know but the upgrade costs a lot of money because they require in most circumstances a hardware upgrade. In my Uni they had to buy RAM just to get Vista going...
Well my school didn't upgrade to XP until 2 years ago and were using 98 until then. After upgrading half of the computers in the school to run XP they won't be upgrading to vista anytime soon. My college however has new machines that can handle vista but they refuse to use it because they are trying to give us a "business computer" type of use. By the time we have finished our college course most places will have finally adopted Vista as their OS.
I sat my MCSE in September, and it was very much Windows Server 2003 based. Although technically speaking the same answers could have applied to both Windows 2000 and XP
I just took the Windows 2000 Professional last year, maybe they updated after that. But don't ask how I fare
well is a good advice think about all the old programs that not support vista and will crash and the kids will go to teachers and say " this pc is not working" and the teacher to say to kids "sorry i do not know what to do" bad reputaion for teachers because of stupid vista