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Submitted by trojan 63 months, 1 week, 5 days, 8 hours ago

As Microsoft is out touting the "wow" of Windows Vista, two federal agencies are among those saying "whoa."

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#1 - By cquinn, 63 months, 11 days, 17 hours ago.

This really isn't any different from any other time an new OS has been released.
These agencies are not saying "absolutely not" to using Vista or other Microsoft products, they are saying "let us check what we can afford to do right now, and see if there are some other alternatives that we might want to use instead, or decide how we are going to upgrade to use these new operating systems and applications in the future. That makes a lot of sense because they do not get a lot of money for computer upgrades each year, so have to be careful about planning for new technology.
But you can be sure if and when a need comes in the future to work with these new programs, they will
be in a position to adopt new machines and new OSes, including Microsoft products, but not necessarily limited to them.

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