Texas bans Microsoft Vista from Government Use

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I love learning new random worthless things, thanks for starting that conversation! I read it and was like, WTF, Dihydrogen monoxide is just a strange unused name for Water? http://www.mp4-converter.net

Makes a ton of sense. Mac's should be their computer! I hope they get Macs instead of PC's.

XP is good? WTH are you people on? Just because it lasted this long with numerous major service packs and hundreds of updates it's decent? That right there is the problem with PC users. They are so content/accustomed with what they don't know that they believe it's acceptable. Sorry folks, any hardcore PC user who has plenty of experience with every Windows OS knows that they all are terrible.

Here's to hoping Windows 7 actually makes a change.

Classic. I am not necessarily a Windows fan, but edicts from on-high in state government about technology cause more trouble than they are worth. I work in state government and the amount of money spent meeting requirements specified by some IT board 6 levels above the agency developing or procuring technology is amazing. How can the legislature know that Vista is never appropriate for any technology be utilized by the state? Again many times options are available but a proper cost benefit analysis applied to the problem at hand is the best place for decisions like this to made not in some blanket edict. BTW I do not have or use Vista, nor do I plan to, I am just saying there may be somethings where Vista is the best choice, hard to imagine what it is though I must admit!

Silly.

It's understandable.

The same state that gave us the winnerest president: GW Bush.

Go figure, the PC in my university computer labs are being switched to Vista and so far we haven't got any troubles with it. XP is still used in VMware Fusion in the Mac(20" iMacs) labs tho... I wonder where the ban originated from?

How's this Apple related?

Mac rocks, but governments are cheaper than your tough grandma who rode it out through the depression. She'll beat up a linebacker from the Steelers who tried to steal her purse, but she ain't shelling out no cash that's for sure. Linux is for them. Cheap, as in free, killer support available. Buy the hardware, buy like 4 sys admins for the whole state of texas, amazon style (who runs their whole server farm with like 8 people.)
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actually, i heard the gov't of san antonio is switching to mac. maybe that will speed up some of the tedious gov't processes that usually take an eternity here.

I base all of my technology decisions on what the government recommends.