Federal agencies ban Windows Vista

As Microsoft is out touting the “wow” of Windows Vista, two federal agencies are among those saying “whoa.”

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cite fear of compatibility problems as one of the reasons not to allow their tens of thousands of employees to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest operating system.

“We are temporarily not permitting computers with the Vista operating system to be connected to our networks,” Michael Baum, a NIST spokesman, said Tuesday. The organization’s technology staff is testing NIST applications and evaluating the security in Windows Vista. The same holds true for Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007, he said.

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