How will Microsofts new Vista Windows operating system impact the ICDL program?
Two factors will impact the next update of ICDL to accommodate Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. One is the difference in interface design, the other is the speed of adoption. New interface design is a much touted feature of the new operating system and the new version of Office applications that will be released at the same time. The new design scheme does include some substantial changes in the way functions are controlled, and the way they are grouped together. If these changes prove popular, the program developers at ICDL will move to present these new changes as rapidly as practicable. They will be challenged – when that happens – to represent the currently established methods with the new ones. But by that time, employers and other influential users will have had input to refining those new schemes, and they will likely be somewhat different still, than those introduced at the launch of the products in early 2007. The speed of adoption will be controlled by a number of fact
