I can certainly understand your decision which is based on your evaluation
of is the cost to upgrade to Vista worth the cost of the increased security
and additional features it provides to your company at this time.
"Andrea Gates" <Andrea.Gates.no.spam@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "JW" <JW@nospam.nspam> wrote in message
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>> You won't get the full functionality that you got in XP with just a
>> generic driver.
>> Prior to Vista drivers were allowed to put part of their driver code into
>> the Windows Kernel to improve performance. With Vista this ability was
>> removed in order to increase the security of the system against driver
>> bugs and Viruses. It is for this reason that most drivers had to be
>> rewritten.
>
> This is the exact reason we have voted not to deploy Vista.