Several of my clients (major energy and pharmaceutical companies) have absolutely NO plans to convert to Vista. Especially with problems already showing up. Some business computer suppliers here in the upper Midwest are still offering XP, even 2000. At least the older OS's work, Vista does not. Will Vista turn out to be a disaster like ME.
This is where I don't like Vista - the automatic micromanaging of code, to the point of deleting programs that the new OS for some reason (if any) deems "improper". I deal with a lot of custom programs that are client specific (including realtime process similation, as in heat and material balance in refineries and chemical plants). This would be a major headache if one of these got wiped out.
Hey, Allen Bradley/Rockwell Automation - you doing anything with Mac OS-X or Linux?
I aint gonna put snoopware on my PC, let alone pay for it!
Two question: Have you ever been bitten by the Windows 2000 RPC bug? Have you thought of an OS tweaked or designed for real-time processing, like RTLinux or VXWorks?