Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
As a journalist who was lucky (?) enough to get an RTM version of Vista at the launch event on November 30, naturally I'm chomping on the bit to test out this Microsoft creation of five years in the making. There's just two problems - hardware and security.
According to the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor
scan, my PC is suitable for running Vista Business which is great
because that's what I want. There's only a couple of problems. The scan
reckons I don't have a DVD drive which is news to me because I watch
DVDs on my PC quite often and I also have a DVD burner. I also need a
new video card if I want use the Aero interface (and what Vista user
doesn't?).
I was expecting the video card issue. However, the fact that Vista
won't recognize my two excellent DVD drives is a worry. An additional
worry is that Vista reckons it doesn't know if it's compatible with my
Canon laser printer or my Intel audio controller.
As a result, I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that if I want
install Vista, I'm going to need a new computer with lots of memory and
probably a new printer and scanner.
Given that I'm a fairly typical small business and home user, I would
say that there are going to be a lot of new PC and peripherals sales in
February 2007.
Since I intend to be an early adopter, another concern for me is
security. McAfee is reportedly the only vendor to have released a Vista
anti-virus product to date, so I guess it's either that, one of the
beta versions from vendors such as Trend Micro or CA, or try
Microsoft's new security product, Windows Live OneCare.
I can understand the concerns of anti-virus vendors because a lot of
folks are going to find the Microsoft security product the easiest and
cheapest option, regardless of whether it's the best one.
The inescapable conclusion of all this is that, unless you were already
planning to buy new hardware, an upgrade to Vista is going to be an
expensive proposition. A word of advice to PC sales staff servicing
customers next year who have just bought a Vista upgrade along with the
associated security and hardware: you may want to approach the subject
of Office 2007 with a little tact.
David Bass
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