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While I know that MS-bashing is part of the Mac subculture, I wonder what this news is doing on an Apple blog.
(of course tuaw is free to publish whatever they want. I just wonder.)

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Stop with the MS/Vista posts already. I come here to read about Apple fer Pete's sake.

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Actually, I disagree. I think that this is relevant and actually quite humorous.

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I suspect most agencies are waiting. The navy - through a contract with EDS - doesn't appear have any plans of upgrading. They're still running Win 2003.

The NMCI computers would break under Vista HW requirements. They barely run 2k3 as it is.

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I think it would only be relevant the NIST also said, "We're switching to OS X." ...

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Re: The first commentor

You'd be surprised at the amount of non-Apple news on this so-called Apple blog. Erica is probably the worst offender. Paying each blogger per post is the worst idea ever.

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I disagree, this very relevant to the Mac world.

Microsoft, after all, is the dominant player in the desktop OS world. Every stumble they make, every "blow" they suffer, weakens their hold on the market, and is a potential gain for Apple or other desktop OS makers (are you listening, Linux developers?)

The stumbling nature of the Vista roll-out, illustrated by this moratorium by NIST, presents a perfect opportunity for Apple and others to weaken, seriously, at least in the public's perception, the inevitability of Microsoft's dominance of that market.

Weaken this perception enough, and market share will begin to shift even faster than it already has.

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How is it not relevant? The mac culture is also defined by it's competition, just like any battle. I don't understand why everyone's complaining - if it's constant talk of competition, I can agree it gets old; that doesn't mean it's not relevant to the future of Apple. In fact, I'm sure it will directly influence the future of Apple, as it always does.

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we still run Win2000/2000 Server at my office - it's the only stable version of Windows I've ever used, and the only one I'm going to be using for the forseeable future.

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The post is a little skewed. They banned Vista from the network, but only until they can review it, to look at all the security issues.

Security is #1 over there. They review and test everything heavily, and ban a lot of systems from the network (eg OSX).

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I fail to see in this article how the NIST is saying yes to OS X by saying no to Vista.

Looks like strait Microsoft bashing to me, which makes all Mac users look like snotty assholes.

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What, exactly, does this have to do with Apple? Can we please get over the "US vs. THEM" mentality? Great, thanks.

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Funny that I get my Vista news from TUAW...

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Ed:

Don't be silly. The only Vista news you can get from TUAW is the bad stuff. Of course they'll never write about the good stuff.

Ned:

They get paid per post? I agree; that's bulls**t.

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Seriously, why is everyone complaining? Comment #7 said it best... this is completely relevant!! I mean, what's so bad about this? If you don't care about news related to Microsoft (and you should be if you're a computer user in general), then DON'T READ IT. You're only wasting your precious time if you stop to read it. Then you wasted more time by POSTING COMMENTS ABOUT WHY YOU THINK MICROSOFT NEWS DOESN'T MATTER TO MAC USERS.

Stuart (comment #10), please cite your sources stating that OS X has also been banned by NIST. I'm searching their site to see how they ruled on OS X and haven't found anything.

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Yeah. Big deal. My all MS "big corporation" also has a "no Vista" policy. The IT department needs to test it all out, decide how to roll out, make sure no mission critical software breaks, etc., etc.

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I've worked at NIST, they just have very strict regulations over what computers are aloud to connect to the network, as you'd hope for a government department.

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I work for a local government agency which is an all MS shop except for one Mac that someone brought into one of the departments. The IT folks have banned Vista so far because there is no compatible Network Client for it yet.
There are also a few security concerns that they are trying to work through and the program that I use everyday has not passed the compatibility test yet either. Rest assured as soon as these things have been worked out we'll migrate sometime end of year if all goes well.

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Actually is is only not allowed to connect a Vista PC till it has gone through all security checks - according to an email this morning.

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Actually I installed Vista on Parallels today and was impressed with it. We publish game software for Window and I was happy to see that our games worked with it. It was so good that I axed my XP Parallels install in favor of Vista.

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