Windows Vista: ambiguous bounty for hardware providers

摘要

After five and a half years of development, Microsoft released Vista to manufacturing on Nov 1, 2006. Like all other operating-system releases of this magnitude, reaction from the outset was mixed, and it will continue to be for the foreseeable future. In the business world, cautious IT departments will first focus on testing backward compatibility and system requirements, delaying its adoption for months or even years.