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I'm looking to have a text chat with someone that's migrated their business class WinXP users to Vista.

My current user base of 25 has WinXP and for reasons of security I'm trying to decide:
a) on going to Vista now and then upgrading to Win7 when a stable version is available
b) or waiting for Win7 when it comes out

Ideally, you would have done this upgrade with one of these case scenarios:
a) a user base of 25 to 100
b) a user base of 101 to 250
c) a user base of 251 and up

I'm wanting to know how it went and:
a) How long did it take?
b) What were the unforeseen problems?
c) What hardware platform were the machines coming from e.g. Duo-Core, Older P3's, how much RAM, Processor speed etc.

Any help sharing your experience would be greatly appreciated.

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Vista when it was released was supposed to be so secure that you could run it without antivirus!!!
The reality was somewhat different. 70% of viruses needed no modification to run on Vista. Workarounds for were easily found to circumvent Vistas security settings. SP1 failed to stop all the security issues.
I am unconvinced that SP2 will be the magic bullet for windows security.

Kevin Turner is just pushing the message out to reassure the ill informed that all is well. I am not reassured. I will stick to Linux for my serious computing. For now, Vista remains unused on a partition of my laptop hard drive.

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