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January 29, 2007 | Comments: (0)

The pain of Vista begins

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Caught this McAfee anti-virus incompatibility entry over at Wired's Monkey Bites blog. Seems we're in for the long and normal path of most resistance as we slowly migrate over to the new OS.

While Bill wants to get 100 million people to move over to Vista by the end of the year (not impossible considering worldwide PC penetration). I know that I'm not going to be recommending it to businesses anytime soon. I'm going to be, as always, cautious.

And six different flavors of the new OS? Ugh, I see support headaches galore.

I do find it curious that Vista comes with Windows Defender to protect it against spyware and other potentially malicious software, but it doesn't come with integrated anti-virus. Which, I'm sure, will be leading to more of the pain alluded to above.

It's too bad that MS doesn't deal with AV vendors directly, embedding different flavors into the OS. You just choose during installation or first time use of the PC. That way businesses and consumers could step out of the way and just get systems to work (at least more so than they do now). Of course this happens with many systems now, but you only have one choice, the one the hardware vendor chose for you (if you're not using a predefined image).

The number one complaint I hear from people about personal AV software is how it seems to have issues with their OS. I guess that may just keep happening as we moving forward.

But I may just be having a pessimistic Monday.

Posted by Victor R. Garza on January 29, 2007 10:24 AM

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