Among the reasons cited by DOT Chief Information Officer Daniel Mintz in ceasing any deployment of the newest OS from Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, were questions about its compatibility with other programs, including earlier versions of Windows, and the estimated costs for moving to Vista. In his memo, Mintz specifically cited "lack of a compelling business case" as his rationale for temporarily banning the move to Vista, along with Microsoft Office 2007 and the Internet Explorer 7 browser.
Microsoft officials are denying that the Department of Transportation's moratorium on adoption of Windows Vista is indicative of any widespread reluctance in the government sector to install the new operating system. Despite the setback, Microsoft executives claim that Vista adoption is moving forward at a consistent pace in the government sector, and on par with similar installations among private industry: "We're wrapping up the largest early adoption program for the windows OS ever, and over ten percent of our partners were from the federal government. This also represented our largest partnership ever with the federal government; we worked closely with them throughout the entire development cycle to address their concerns and priorities," said Patrick Svenburg, Windows client solution specialist with the Microsoft Federal group.
News source: InfoWorld
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