Vista Release Kick-off meeting

March 30, 2006

Attendees:

Deb Bowser, Jonathan Hunt, Alex Kozlov, Albert Willis, Richard Edelson, Paul Dzus, Chuck King, Fred Baars

•  Identified the areas of impact on MIT community

•  Existing applications backward compatibility: generation of personal certificates does not work, 64-bit support?, Oracle applications, Citrix applications?

•  How many versions of Vista will MIT support? Microsoft plans for six versions to be released

•  40% increase in number of group policy settings on Vista machines (power management);

•  Licensing: MIT will keep Microsoft Site License agreement which will allow to get Vista for MIT community with no additional cost; currently students are allowed to get two downloads of XP and can keep a copy of XP after graduation from MIT

•  Upgrade to Vista vs new machines coming to MIT : hardware aspects of upgrade (old machines might not support Vista requirements, need DVD-ROM for installer on DVD media); support for upgrade

•  We have to set right expectation for the end users; tell our customers what works and what does not and what application upgrades exist for Vista

•  What project tool should we use for testing?

•  Two main areas of testing: applications compatibility & operating system functionality

•  use SWRT test matrix for applications testing

•  use vista-release group certificate for all documentation published (product release notebook, matrix)

•  Get Vista media from SWRT of through MSDN subscription, insure that the same version is used for testing

•  Meet every 3 weeks on Thursday at 1:00 PM