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Before You
Take The Vista Plunge, Think About These Three Issues.
1. First, if you're running an older or unsupported version of Windows, I highly
recommend that you think about upgrading as soon as possible.
2. Second,
understand how your current software will operate in a Vista environment.
Microsoft has tools available to assist you here, and it's important to use them
to test all your applications and ensure that they can run in Vista before you
make your move. This puts a real premium on not only knowing what applications
your business runs on a "authorized" basis, but also what software some of your
users may have loaded on their own in order to perform day-to-day tasks.
Depending on the nature of your business, this practice may be more common than
you think.
3. Third, and
probably most important, you need to understand your hardware environment and
your plans for upgrading your hardware infrastructure. I've already mentioned
the issue regarding DVD drives, but you also need to examine processor speed,
memory, hard drive space and graphics cards in light of any plans you have to
move to Vista. However, most equipment purchased in the past couple years should
be able to support Vista in the Vista Capable mode.
Let me know if you need anything else.
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