exercising caution is fine

but making a blanket policy like this is idiotic, and it's only going to cause more problems than it solves.

I love it when senior management start sticking their nose in and making sweeping generalisations.

I have actually seen a fair amount of software that runs faster and more smoothly on vista than xp.

as for the resource overheads...

We all baulked at XP when it first came out. OK, Vista was WAY over the top on first release, but windows 7 is pretty reasonable now. Especially considering its functionality.

@MacRat

Yeah, I can definately envisage a little trip coming up for Stevie B in the imminant future