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Everyone knows that Vista sucks so there's no point in buying a PC until you can get something that works. Vista can be made to work but for a business where reliability and consistency is a priority there's no need to 'upgrade', all it does is cause a lot of support problems for the IT people. Windows 7 should fix a lot of this but unfortunately I'm told by our IT people that it comes with its own headaches, headaches that include a creative licensing structure that makes it difficult to economically deploy in our company.

So what we're seeing is the downside of bundling what is quite an expensive piece of software with the hardware. We don't want the OS but we're forced to pay for it -- twice if we 'downgrade' to XP -- so the obvious solution for now is to is to stick with what works and not buy anything. Computers don't wear out that fast and any relatively modern system is adequate for most tasks so there's no real need to keep cycling the systems every couple of years. The problem is, though, that once you get out of the habit of frequently changing your systems then its very difficult to justify to the corporate accountants doing so in the future. Furthermore, when systems are changed they are changed selectively -- where once we'd just get 'the latest' we now get 'what's needed'. This trend is not good for hardware (or software) sales.
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CSClark's profile picture CSClark

18 Jan 09, 11:45am

I don't want to sound cynical, but are you sure your IT department aren't just lazy? Did they do that inward whistling thing when they told you about Windows 7 licensing? C'mon mate, lay down the law, they're walking all over you. Make them handbuild your new computers and provide support for user's choice of OS, that'll teach 'em.