No advantage to Vista

Computerworld reports Gartner Research is finding there is no "real competitive advantage" in upgrading to Vista.

Unlike Gartner research director, Martin Gilliland, we don't find this surprising at all. No business, big or small, should be plunging into a new operating system without doing their homework first. For a large company, that's a lot of homework.

Our experience with Vista has been largely positive apart from some really irritating UAC issues and so far we've seen few issues with spyware.

For an upgrade to Vista, we'd be suggesting a new machine is the way to go. This means at least $1,500 when you include the machine, Office 2007 and Vista Business. That's not a minor investment across a dozen machines, let alone ten thousand and we're not including the migration costs.

While Vista will become common in small business over the next year, there's no real reason to junk your existing XP machines.