Vista migration...

A change of operating system can sound like such a simple thing to do but companies are often unaware of the outcome of such a move.  Application compatibility is one the most important challenges faced by organizations when deploying new operating systems.

vista migration is something that your company will have to go through. Censuit are specialists in the evaluation and test management of a vista migration. We will work with you to help give confidence in your product so that the task of confirming whether you can support Vista as a platform is easily obtained.

Such a statistic is a headache for product vendors as well as companies hoping to migrate their existing XP or Windows2000 clients over to Vista.

Some of the biggest problems faced by adopters of Vista include:

  • Hardware and software driver incompatibility
  • Legacy software incompatibility
  • Interoperability with existing operating systems
  • New security features covertly interrupting normal application usage flow
  • Interaction between user applications and new Vista provided tools e.g. Windows Defender
  • Interaction and usage of new UI architecture features e.g.  Aero

One of the most critical tasks in preparing a deployment of Windows Vista is to test the compatibility of your software. Many applications that run perfectly well under Windows XP simply do not run on Windows Vista. If you are not in the position to invest time and money on a full Vista deployment solution, it is absolutely imperative to test each application ahead of time to ensure your users are able to run their programs after an upgrade.  After July 31st 2008 PC distributors will not be allowed to ship Windows XP on their models - as a result your customers will be more and more likely to require your software to run on Windows Vista.

It's easy for us to say but testing software thoroughly on Windows Vista is the only answer.  Censuit specialise in managing and testing in these types of environments.  Using an exploratory style approach to initial evaluation efforts, staff at Censuit are able to quickly ascertain whether problems are expected for your product.  We will then help plan and test your full migration to both supporting and running on Windows Vista.