If there is one user group that keeps Microsoft’s PR staff up at night, it must be law firm IT directors. As the software giant readies its biggest product launch ever — the January introduction of Windows Vista (already available to businesses) — with a media blitz that will include everything but burying a copy in the hatch on “Lost,” law firms are greeting the frenzy with a collective ho-hum. “No one is taking the leap,” says Brian Conlon, the chief information officer at Howrey, which has 1,400 PCs spread across 14 offices. “Next year I will start looking at it.”
Indeed, most firms plan to wait a year or two, if not more, before moving to Vista. There is reason to be wary. Previous Windows upgrades needed a little time (okay, months) to get the bugs out, and early adopters often saw key third-party applications crash under the new operating systems. Are law firms now being overly cautious? And do they risk missing out on some nifty new features? You bet. But that might not be a bad thing.
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