Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider
CWmike writes “The Texas state Senate yesterday gave preliminary approval to a state budget that includes a provision forbidding government agencies from upgrading to Windows Vista without written consent of the legislature. Sen. Juan Hinojosa, vice chairman of the Finance Committee, proposed the rider because ‘of the many reports of problems with Vista … We are not in any way, shape or form trying to pick on Microsoft, but the problems with this particular [operating] system are known nationwide,’ Hinojosa said during a Senate session debating the rider (starting at 4:42 of this RealMedia video stream). ‘And the XP operating system is working very well.’ A Microsoft spokeswoman said in response, ‘We’re surprised that the Texas Senate Finance Committee adopted a rider which, in effect, singles out a specific corporation and product for unequal treatment. We hope as the budget continues to go through the process, this language will be removed.'”
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