TopTechNews have an interesting article about the problems that Beta testers are finding with Windows Vista.

Things are not looking that promising for Vista at present, certainly my experience of it is reflected in the comments they make in this article. I find it especially interesting that the anti virus vendors appear to be struggling to produce versions of their products that work with Vista and this must surely be one of the single biggest factors in whether Vista is adopted by any commercial organisations ? A version of Windows with no anti virus product is an accident waiting to happen and any IT manager worth their salt is just not going to go down that road…

Meanwhile Apple are quietly plugging away at OS X Leopard and whilst the WWDC announcements might not have been as earth shattering as some may have been hoping for the reality is that even if Mr Jobs hints at future secret feature announcements was marketing bluff, there is still enough in OS X version 5 to give Vista version 1 a real run for its money. I really dont expect any corporates to even begin considering Vista in a live environment for at least a year after its release, sure there will be some early adopters desperate to get column inches in the trade press about how successful their rollouts of Vista have been, but for every one of these there will be thousands of sites sitting on the side lines waiting for the product to stabilise. Add to this the fact that Apple machines can run both OS X and Windows/Linux etc concurrently very smoothly through the use of either Boot Camp ( Windows XP ) or the Parallels virtualisation solution, and if anything corporates may well begin to seriously evaluate the Apple alternative which gives them the chance to easily run both products side by side.

Seriously, there are tough times ahead for Microsoft…

[tags]microsoft, apple, osx, vista, leopard[/tags]