Wall Street Slow to Warm to Windows Vista
This article originally appeared in Securities Industry News.
By Maria Trombly.
Even before the credit crisis hit, adoption of Microsoft Corp.’s oft-criticized Windows Vista operating system was slow on Wall Street. And with IT budgets tightening across the financial services industry, many firms are not rushing to make the switch.
For many it is not just about the money–there are concerns about Vista’s performance when it comes to business productivity applications. According to a testing report issued late last year by Devil Mountain Software, Vista, compared to Windows 2000 and Windows XP, “is easily twice as demanding and requires state-of-the-art hardware in order to perform adequately.”
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