While the world is still engaged in debates over the success or failure of Windows Vista, NASA made it clear that Vista is not on its current agenda.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given a thumbs down to Microsoft’s latest operating system, and has decided against upgrading its 60000 Windows PCs with Windows Vista anytime this year.
The reason behind this temporary ban is NASA’s practise to wait until a service pack is released for any new operating system to ensure stability, according to a NASA spokesperson. NASA will begin the transition from Windows XP to Vista by January 2008 as the agency needs time to ensure the compatibility of Vista with NASA’s applications.
Windows Vista is already been temporarily banned by the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of NASA, however, rejected an assertion by a NASA computer scientist that Vista has been banned by most sectors of the federal government.
Ballmer, who anticipated near-term adoption by a number of government agencies, said:
Vista has been anything but banned from most parts of the U.S. federal government.
Windows Vista is widely considered as the black page in Microsoft history, and NASA definitely wants to play it safe.
