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[News] United Kingdom, Like Continental Europe, Australia and America, Reluctant to Embrace Vista

CIO Jury: Vista now? Or later?

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| UK businesses are adopting a cautious approach to Microsoft's
| forthcoming Windows Vista operating system, with many citing few
| compelling reasons to upgrade and opting to wait until at least
| 2008 before moving to Vista.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6138916.html


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Forrester: Consumers won't rush to Vista

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| Much has been made about the fact that businesses likely won't be
| in a hurry to upgrade to Windows Vista. But a report by Forrester
| Research Inc. suggests consumers won't stampede to purchase the
| new OS either.
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http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061109vistarush/index.html


Study: No Vista for majority of European businesses

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| More than half of European organizations have no plan to upgrade
| to Windows Vista, according to a Forrester survey.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6135429.html


Vista: Costs limit Education Dept deployment

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| After more than eight months of beta testing Microsoft Windows
| Vista, licensing and implementation costs have stymied mass
| adoption at the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET).
| 
| [...]
| 
| DET has one of the largest IT infrastructures in the country with
| 1.3 million users spread across 2,500 locations. Its desktop fleet
| consists of 250,000 devices of which 160,000 are personal computers.M
| acs make up 15 percent to 20 percent of the total, and are more
| common in primary schools.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista_Costs_limit_Education_Dept_deployment/0,130061733,339272347,00.htm


Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss

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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/


Office, Vista "too expensive" for SMEs 

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| According to the Sydney Morning Herald, David Hanrahan, of IT  solutions
| and services provider Dimension Data said SMEs are staying away in
| droves because Office is a lot more expensive and facing competition
| from free open software.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35999

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