Microsoft claims Vista's adoption will be twice as quick as XP's

MICROSOFT has high hopes for it's up-and-coming Vista operating system and is expecting business customers to adopt it twice as fast as any previous release of Windows.

It says ten times as many business desktops will be deployed at release compared to any previous Windows version.

We'd put this down as more than a tad optimistic. Nevertheless, Brad Goldberg, general manager of the Windows Client Business Group at Microsoft remains buoyant, claiming the company "has made a concerted effort to give customers the tools and training they need to adopt Vista across their businesses".

He went on to say that the Vole had "put test versions of the OS into as many people's hands as possible, with at least five million users having access to Vista RC1".

Microsoft's expectations seem at odds with a survey taken in August by Computerworld US, which found that just 17 per cent of IT professionals are considering rolling out Windows Vista in the first year. Forty-one per cent have no plans to roll out Vista, and 35 per cent will begin testing Vista only after it ships.

This seems much more realistic, at least to us here at the INQ. µ