Sunlight Shines Through Vista Gloom
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe role reversal has started. Some enterprises are upgrading Windows XP to Vista, rather than downgrading to XP from Vista.
Yes, you read that right. The enterprise gloom hanging over Vista may yet lift. But Forrester Research's weather forecast is based on a few months of trended data. The winds may be shifting, but those dark clouds of negative Vista perceptions hang low overhead.
Still, Microsoft can use any good news about Windows Vista, and a new Forrester report has got some. The long-winded title: "Corporate Desktop Operating System Trends, Q4 2007 Through Q2 2008: Windows Vista Deployments Are Finally Ramping Up, While Mac Continues Its Slow March on the Enterprise." The analyst firm monthly surveyed more than 50,000 enterprise end users from 2,500 organizations to compile the operating system trends.
"A new trend has emerged," writes report author Benjamin Gray. "Windows Vista migrations are now coming from Windows XP machines, which is a shift from when Forrester previously reported on these desktop OS trends." He emphasized that "the earliest adopters were mostly limited to Windows 2000 shops that were finally replacing their aging hardware with the newer Windows Vista OS preinstalled."
But earlier Forrester data also showed percentage growth gains of three-to-one to Windows XP compared with moves to Vista from Windows 2000. So there's a dark lining to this silver cloud. Windows 2000 migrations to Vista may be subsiding, but XP got more of them.
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Comments(7)
i work for a huge company that has 1000s of computers. the other day i asked one of the
it guys when the company was planning on upgrading to vista. he just laughed and walked
away shaking his head.
vista pwns xp
your it guy must be a joke, even if he didn't like vista (with actual knowledge of it),
he would at least have given some reasons. but he probably has never used it and is going
off rep.
perhaps the it guy's name is steve ballmer.
this was a long time coming. you'll see, the tide will turn even more in the near
future...
he did give a reason if you'd like one. however, i didn't want to state the obvious.
"it's an overinflated version of winxp, so why not continue using xp until windows 7
comes out." like i said mr. codyp it doesn't take much knowledge to know that what he
said is true...i guess for you, it was really hard to figure out vista, since it was your
first major upgrade since windows 3.11 for workgroups. perhaps you will upgrade your
2400baud modem as well?
i am the "it guy" and let me tell you mr codyp it's no joke. when you work for
corporate and rolling out new os there are to many unkown variables. many things can not
work well with the current appz. its better to stick with what works (xp) than risk all
the whining from employees/ers about all the appz that no longer work well for them.
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This is BS
By Whatever on 24.08.2008 - 03:08