As a consultant you are judged by the quality of the advice you give.

The 50 million dollar question is: Is business ready for the change?

Commercially Windows Vista and Office 2007 are going to be slow burn products.

They will trickle into the mainstream via new computer installs as opposed to people actually upgrading from Windows XP or Office 2000, XP or Office 2003.

To be honest as both Windows Vista and Office only hit the retail shelves from next week. No one really knows to what extent Joe Public will either love or hate the new direction.

My gut says people will like Windows Vista (more or less because it’s pretty) and people like me extol its new security features. Windows Vista on new fast hardware is a nice experience.

Microsoft Office 2007 is a harder choice; I like it, but the true extent of training and familiarisation a typical user will require is still an unknown.

So over the next few months all the early adopters will help figure some of this out.

I also plan to write about my own experience using Windows Vista and Office 2007.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

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