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Windows Vista might bring transition problems for Enterprise

Microsoft launched a private beta testing of their much awaited and delayed operating system previously codenamed Longhorn. Windows Vista is now out in its beta 1 and gives users and testers a peek of what to expect from the next generation operating system from the company, which controls over 90% of the desktops around the world.

The company has already informed the testers that what they see is just a preview and anything can be changed for the final release. Implementation of concepts and technologies can be removed or made available even after the final launch of Microsoft Vista, which is due to come out sometime next year.

In fact, most of the big changes, which actually affect the end consumer, are not included or are in incomplete condition in this release. The company is sticking to its recently adopted policy that security comes first. A Microsoft statement said that the consumer feedback suggests that they want security to remain the top priority for the products.

However, market analysts believe that this might become a problem for a large number of enterprise clients in the market with company putting application compatibility to low priority. The company still believes that it would be far easier for the end user to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista than it was for the users who moved from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.

In fact, it is a well-known fact that a large number of companies are yet to upgrade to Windows XP in corporate environment from their base of Windows 2000 computers. This would definitely become a problem in the future as the company has stopped releasing security updates for that operating system and has no plans to release a version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows 2000.