I recently read an article by Steven Warren entitled Vista is not ready for the corporate world.  I could not disagree with the article title more, well sort of.  In the article he make several assumptions that are plain false.  I did get a kick out of his statement “Prior to Vista, the default in Windows was to run as administrator”.  Since Steven is talking about the corporate world this statement is amusing.  A good system engineer will not setup any user as a local administrator by default.

In the rest of the article he addresses the need for updated driver and working out “kinks”.  He provides no evidence of these so called kinks.  Also with proper testing before deployment in a production environment you would certify hardware and software that will work on Vista.  Does Steven think that future OS will always work with legacy hardware and software?  He also address the issues with the new user access control (UAC) in Vista.  This issue is easily solved by training which should already be done in any corporate roll out of a new operating system.

Vista is quite ready for the business world, assuming you follow the tried and true steps for rolling out a new OS.  Generally these steps will take time.  In many cases 8-9 months or longer of testing, training, and validation.  During this time bug and security fixes will be coming out. In all I found Steven’s article very inaccurate and misleading.