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CIO View: Vista may be pretty but it's no big deal

When choosing to upgrade to Windows Vista, IT managers must decide whether the additional features will create any real value.

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Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia's CIO of the year, shared an insight into maximising value, "It's a challenge moving the business from, say, Windows 2000 to Windows XP and getting enough value to justify that, let alone moving it to another environment," he said. He also noted that Windows Vista requires a lot of computing power.

Tizi gave the example of a call centre, and said it would be hard to justify such an upgrade when most users need nothing more than e-mail and the basic applications. However, Tizi also said that an upgrade to Vista would eventually be inevitable, but "it might take longer than Microsoft thought it might take."

Talkback 2 comments

    Are you guys on drugs?! Anonymous -- 01/11/07

    You have dumped all these Cesare Tizi stories on the front page, making it hard to find the real news!!

    It pays to be an unemployed CIO these days it seems, wall to wall coverage on ZDNet... Seriously is this mates rates or what?!

    What is with that?!

    Absolutely agree! Anonymous -- 01/11/07 (in reply to #320088938)

    How frigging amateurish is this? Seven 'CIO View' stories, all smack bang together on the front page and posted one after the other on the same day - that's bad enough! But all just plugs for more words of wisdom from Cesare Tizi, who must be someone's best mate at ZDNET! This is totally amateur hour, guys! How do you expect anyone to take you seriously?

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