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Vista takeup still under 10 per cent
A PUBLISHER of CIO arse-covering studies, Forrester Research has found that Windows Vista is installed on less than 10 per cent of corporate PCs in North America and Europe.
Spinning desperately to paint a cheerful colour on this gritty cinder of fact, the firm says IT managers are "slowly warming" to Vista. That might be accurate, if it means executives are getting comfortable with their decisions to give Vista a pass, which would seem to be case.
Forrester claims 31 per cent of IT managers reported they have started migrating to Vista, but that seems a bit of a stretch more than two years after its release to corporate accounts. It could indicate anything from reading the Vole's Vista propaganda, through telling techies to do some Vista testing, to actually planning hardware upgrades and Vista software rollouts.
The firm even goes so far as to declare that Vista "is finally shaping out to be the operating system that dethrones Windows XP," a claim that would be knee-slappingly hilarious if it weren't so pathetic in its disconnect from the reality reflected by the figures in the report.
It claims some IT managers expect to struggle with supporting both Windows XP and Vista, but we can't help but wonder which ones those might be, the stupid ones? The company also reports there's considerable interest in Windows 7, which strikes us as more plausible, even though that isn't scheduled to arrive until next year.
A copy of Forrester's full report, "Enterprises Warming to Windows Vista", will set you back $279. But we imagine a Friday afternoon staff retreat to some gentlemen's club for shots of tequila and lap-dances would do more for IT management morale and CIO team-building. µ
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You need the next "service pack" to make it work... yeah right! Come on people, smell the coffee... dump the windoze. Get Ubuntu!
Training staff costs, support calls, pricier hardware reqs, seriously it's a financial burden switching to Vista or any new software that does many things differently to the last program. That's why businesses are not doing it. If they wanted Vista to be easy for businesses then they only needed a "look and behave like XP" interface option, QED.
There is no need for "Premium Content" playback in the corporate environment. Why does the windows need embedded DRM and protected processes? What are all of those protected processes doing on these computers. Since I cannot attach a debugger to them to examine them, I have to trust MS that they are OK? I think not. I'll stick with an OS that is not a media player that runs windows programs.
People to this day fail to realize XP was not "embraced" by corporate until SP2 2.5 years after its initial release. Futher into it XP did not overtake 2000 until 4 years into its cycle.
People dont believe me, research this.
And the Journalist writing this piece, stop with the sensationalist banter. Report dont make the news.
IMO Vista is great. Does anyone remember the compatibility, etc. problems faced when they first released XP? It was only after SP2 that XP became what it is. If you consider that, Vista has done really well. SP1 fixes most of the problems it initially had.
... Vista "is finally shaping out to be the operating system that dethrones Windows XP," ...
Lalala, say hi to Alice from me ok? She's right behind the big oak tree, just go straight ahead.
did u check out win 7? i think most corporates will migrate straight to it.
hi
anxiously waiting for a inq article that focusses on ubuntu / leopard / suse ... etc. count the no.of updates and upgrades given by non-windows platforms before commenting badly about windows.
I still see companies I do maintenance for still have setups like 2.6 Celeron / 256 RAM or 2.8 P4 with 256 or 512 RAM, needless to say most of them are using the mighty Intel IGP. In fact they ask me to install VISTA for them :D Even with RAM upgrade my answer would still NO.