LOL,

That bastion of corporate IT journalism, CIO.com has released their nominations for the best [worst] ten Technology failures for 2007.

And coming up the rear is - yes you guessed it - Vista.

One of the longest—five years!—and priciest development projects at Microsoft, the Vista OS has yet to penetrate enterprise computing in any major way. The corporate version shipped in late 2006, and 2007 was supposed to be Vista’s march into the enterprise. But many IT leaders have called it a costly resource hog that makes them love Windows XP. Even Vista’s much-touted security isn’t helping. Now, some companies who’ve been waiting for the first service pack before deploying may skip Vista altogether due to lingering performance concerns.

I have to say I whole heartedly agree with their findings

There are plenty of excellent, reliable, rock-solid, secure and free alternatives out there. Don’t waste your money any more guys and gals. Go and try some Open Source alternatives…

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Sorry if this site is running a bit slowly today.

Rather unexpectedly, our OOXML comment discussion site: www.dis29500.org got on the front page of Slashdot last night (and at 10:30am this morning it still is).

This is great news in terms of traffic and raising awareness, but bad news for the other sites we run on our Virtual Machine.

Thanks to Bytemark (our hosting company) for being on the ball and providing some more RAM at very short notice.

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