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Vista flaw could haunt Microsoft
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
If you followed Microsoft in the 1990s, you knew it as a company that deftly moved from strength 
to strength, leveraging its dominance in one area of software to command other parts of the tech business. That company’s long gone, folks.
The latest evidence that Microsoft has lost its Midas Touch? Its bid for a bigger piece of the $14 billion database business, a sector now ruled by Oracle and IBM. Until now, Microsoft has been doing what it does best to attract corporate customers: It has tied its SQL Server database management software to programs running on Windows desktops.
But now Microsoft has a problem. Vista, its long-awaited update to the Windows operating system, can’t run the current version of SQL Server. The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista - called SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2 - but it’s in beta and can be licensed only for testing purposes. Microsoft hasn’t set a release date for the new SQL program. Microsoft’s Vista isn’t compatible with SQL Server - Dec. 15, 2006
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