The one point here not being addressed is why the big companies/organizations are banning the upgrade. There are several.
1) Legacy hardware upgrade costs. Budgets are tight and many of the older boxen will not run Vista efficiently.
a) The cost of new hardware
b) The cost to deploy enterprise wide
c) Unexpected/unbudgeted rollouts are sitting ducks for budget auditors.
2) Regression testing. NIST in particular has to do several things before they can deploy an OS.
3) User acceptance. Change interrupts business processes.
4) Custom app/core app support. If you can't run your custom core business solutions on Vista, what's the point of migrating?
Anyway, these are just a few reasons you're seeing this movement. It is important to note that the same thing happened when Win95 came along but the difference being public perception/acceptance of OS upgrades from MS. If you ever wonderd about the power of reputation then take a close look at MS today vs. 12 years ago.
Think business folks, the days of separation between security and/or technology and the business process(es) are things of the past.
--TH13
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