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Vista/XP Path?

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by tiredoftechrepublic

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Now that they have made one of the elective choices Vista, will it be worth pursuing the Vista path toward MCSA/MCSE?
Take a look at the furious "downgrading" to XP.
Rumor has it, according a Microsoft newsletter, their OS's are going to come out with even shorter lifetimes.

We all know how the software industry supports the hardware industry, and vice versa, but come on! If I released a product on the market and had to fix it everyday for its whole life, I would say the product was junk to start with.

I did a hardware refresh project for a national employment agency and much to my surprise and delight, they were upgrading from W2K to XP Pro,
NOT Vista. Very smart move.
All in all, just wondering about trying to keep up with MS.

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by hal 9000

Most business don't change because M$ tells them to. If they have something that works they stick with it particularly when it's apparent that a lot of Mission Critical Software will not run on the new M$ offering.

Personally from my experience other than Education Institutions I don't know a single business supporting Vista at the moment. Even the support that is available for Vista seems to be along the lines of if it works OK it's fine but if it doesn't work don't call us.

As for Vista being popular it's not as it currently only has 39% of the market according to a Speech the God Gates gave a short time ago so why bother with something restricted to the Home Market predominately?

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by tiredoftechrepublic

MS must have made a decision to offer Vista as an elective toward MCSA\MSCE for some reason.
I was pondering how long it would take them to give XP Pro the EOL axe, like they did Windows98 last summer.
XP was hot on the heels of Windows 2000. Vista for the corporate desktop may not be too far off.
As I mentioned in the original post, rumor has it, new version$ will be coming out quicker than ever.
I personally, will take Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network as my elective.

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