Businesses focus on Windows 7, XP over Vista
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Recommended: Click here to check for outdated driversMicrosoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP among business users, with more enterprises investigating the unreleased Windows 7 than its predecessor.
More than half (58 percent) of businesses using Microsoft technology are "exploiting" Windows XP, compared to just four percent for Vista, according to research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif).
Tif also found that 35 percent of organizations described themselves as "not yet interested" in Vista.
The operating system (OS) that most people appear to be developing or piloting is XP, with 12 percent of businesses saying they were doing so, compared to five percent for Vista.
More businesses (30 percent) said they're currently investigating or analyzing Microsoft's next scheduled OS, Windows 7, than Vista (14 percent).
In contrast, seven percent of businesses said they're still exploiting Windows 2000, although 19 percent said they are currently replacing or "sunsetting" it.
In April, research revealed that Vista uptake among businesses had been slow during 2007, although a quarter of businesses said they planned to upgrade in 2008.
The main reason given by Tif members for not moving to Vista was a lack of business requirement for doing so.
Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) is undergoing a similar struggle for adoption, with a fifth of respondents saying they're not yet interested in the newer version of the app.
Almost two-thirds of businesses surveyed (65 percent) said they are exploiting IE6, compared to four percent for IE7. However, 14 percent said they are currently piloting IE7, with the same proportion using it in isolation.
Almost a quarter (23 percent) said they are analyzing and investigating IE8, which is currently available in beta form.
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Comments(7)
there are many who just don't want to admit that vista is a complete and utter failure.
your so wrong about vista and i know my pc stuff and vista is good at alot xp is not..i
do like xp but it is out dated now and people years ago would not let go off 98...the only
thing wrong that put every off is vista is a bit hardware hungry and you get people with
old machines try to run it and slag it off cos they can not have it on there old machine.
or if they know very little a op systems.
the ones who bitch have absolete hardware. honestly, as things progress forward, you
really think that it still should support old hardware, give me a break. go and buy a new
computer and shut up. stop running vista on an amd 1.6ghz. i built my computer 3 years
ago, with minor upgraded and it runs vista 64-bit like a dream.
vi$ta is a shithouse of an os! overbloated, crock of ill coded garbage.
vi$ta is a shithouse of an os! overbloated, crock of ill coded garbage.
dude
you are absolutely clueless xp is a pile of dog doodle and always has been, patch after
countless patch to fix this crap. i for one am glad to see the back of xp
if all the vista 'devotees' posting here had to pay for that dogshit, their loyalty
would evaporate in a heartbeat.
are there enough improvements for the
majority of end-users to warrant paying that much money for it? yeah, that's what i
thought. or maybe they actually did pay for it and just don't want to admit what chumps
they were.
i run a 3.0ghz dc on a fast hdd with all the other trimmings, and i
couldn't get that bloated pos off my machine fast enough. the ui alone was enough to
make me puke.
herb and marge out there got this thing shoved down their
throats, and that's who i really feel sorry for. who do you think most of the end-users
are?
some 800 mb worth of drivers? good goddamn. and i just couldn't live
without aero. i'd phuckin' commit suicide. you people are little 14-yr-olds who just
gotta have the latest and greatest expensive video card. grow up. you just owned by ms -
get those kocks out of your gay mouths for about 5 millliseconds and admit it.
get a lite copy of xp - which itself is bloated, but nothing compared to vista - and quit
acting like gay fanboys.
3.0gz machine wow that tells us heaps about your rig dude. if you cant get vista to work
on your shitbox then maybe you should upgrade you hardware. infact why the hell are you
still using xp, wouldnt windows 2000 be better os for you?
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By sjc1963 on 03.10.2008 - 10:10