Yale offers Windows Vista but recommends against
This post was published 3 years 1 month 11 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Yale students will have quick access to Microsoft Vista as well as assorted software bundles but administrators are recommending that students do not go through with installation(s).
As part of an agreement with Microsoft, the University is providing free downloads of Windows and other Microsoft software titles, and Vista will be available in the next few days, Information Technology Services officials said Monday. But while students will be able to download the operating system at no cost, ITS does not recommend installing the new operating system, as neither computing assistants nor the University’s technical staff currently have the capabilities to support the software.
Is it just me, or does preparation for the latest operating system seem to be missing these days? If campus IT administrators are ill-equiped to handle help requests, why make the downloads available to students for free to begin with?
Would you turn down a free copy of Vista?
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Joe Anderson
February 6th, 2007 – 2:59 pm
Would you turn down a free copy of Vista?
Sure … i use OS X
but then again MS should be giving them away and not hounding poor russian teachers with years in a gulag …
My university offers this as well through the Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance.. I guess they’re just letting us know it’s there if we want it, but obviously they don’t want to have to support it yet as a brand new OS. I got my copy!.. although it is running under Parallels on a MacBook! =P
Yes I wold turn it down seeing as how I use OS X. Besides *cough* Torrent *cough* is always there.
Well what exactly do you suggest? I don’t know a single large organization that doesn’t work this way. You can’t start preparing until the product is actually released, and no the betas don’t count since the things that are mostly likely to change from the beta to the shipping product (compatibility with existing systems and software) are exactly the things for which you’d most want to prepare. They won’t recommend using it until they can verify that it works with existing resources, which may be awhile. How is this a bad thing?
And if you don’t think that’s a good policy, because you support yourself and are comfortable finding your own workarounds, that’s why the make the download available. Capable users can upgrade themselves while those who rely on the central support system know to wait until that central support support system has everything in place to support them.
I’m genuinely baffled that this could be considered a bad policy.
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