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Bowen, however, said he has not definitely ruled out an FAA-wide upgrade to Windows Vista and related software -- if Microsoft can satisfy his concerns over compatibility with the agency's existing applications and demonstrate why such a move would make financial sense given Google Apps's low price.We have a trip to Microsoft scheduled for later this month," said Bowen
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Among other things, Bowen said the FAA's copies of IBM's Lotus Notes software don't work properly on test PCs running Windows Vista.
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Sigh .. This seems a paradox .. They dont wanna upgrade their OS because their existing applications wont work on it. But they are considering CHANGING their OS .. Whats the guarantee that the applications will work fine on other OS as well as their upgrades ..? ?