Vista gets a halo effect from Windows 7
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversConventional wisdom says corporations have completely rejected Windows Vista. But I’m seeing evidence lately that Vista’s image is improving with age.
A new report issued today by Benjamin Gray and his colleagues at Forrester Research confirms that Vista is getting a new lease on life in the enterprise. Microsoft’s well-executed development of Windows 7 might be a big part of the reason.
Forrester surveyed 962 IT decision-makers at North American and European companies with more than 1000 seats (more than a quarter of the survey respondents represent organizations of 20,000 employees or more) and found that Vista is now installed on just under 10% of all PCs within enterprises. One-third of all respondents have already begun Vista deployments, and another 26% have plans to begin deploying Vista this year or next. Another 15% are going to skip Vista and go straight to Windows 7.
In other words, the supposedly despised Vista is about to do what its predecessors did and begin significant adoption after a few years of apparent snubbing. That’s what happened to XP, which had less than 10% total market share (corporate and consumer) after a year on the market and didn’t hit the 50% mark until four years into its lifecycle. Based on Forrester’s numbers, I would expect Vista to approach 50% share by the end of 2010, with IT pros watching Windows 7 to see whether its performance in the field justifies the great early reviews .
I remember reading surveys of IT pros about their intended adoption rates back in 2006 before Vista shipped. Most of those numbers predicted that Vista would be at least modest success for Microsoft. A year later, after Vista’s troubled launch and a tidal wave of bad publicity and devastating Apple ads, the numbers had swung to extreme pessimism.
And now, two years into Vista’s life, those opinions have swung back to a fairly normal adoption curve. Why? The number one reason is Service Pack 1, which made a big difference for Vista. The overwhelming consensus among reviewers was that it fixed a long list of bugs, including some deployment blockers, and improved performance noticeably. SP2 is just around the corner, and anyone who’s doing their own testing instead of believing what they read on Slashdot has had plenty of time to decide whether it’s a smooth stable update (it is).
Vista is part of the same family as Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, both of which have earned almost universal rave reviews. Server 2008 is built on the same code base as Vista SP1, which adds credence to the idea that Vista wasn’t fatally flawed, only badly botched at launch.
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Comments(6)
i love how now we state the obvious that xp wasn't adopted until 4 years later. i loved
how people bit*hed about windows vista when it came out. when windows 7 people will
install vista and complain about how slow windows 7 is. its so annoying. can't wait to
start reading i hate windows 7 vista is better.
the world is full of techno retards. people bitch and complain about anything new without
even having tried it." don't touch vista with a barge pole!!. so have you tried it? no
but a mate of mine in it says its crap." i have heard this type of comment from hundreds
of techno retards since the release of vista and xp before that and so on. i just dont get
it, everyone appears to be "hanging out" for something new and when it arrives they
avoid it like the plague then curse others with their ill-informed comments which then
spreads from that person to the next.then one day one of the technotards gives it a try
for himself and realises its not as bad as he heard then starts to enjoy the new features
and performance. the week after that the next version of windows is released and his
"new" os is obsolete. from windows 2000 onwards i have used every m$ os since its rc1
stage and then after rtm edition have never had any problems that couldnt be sorted out
with a little commonsense and google searching. i have enjoyed the increased performance
and new features for the entire life of each os. so techno tards out there, dont wait
until your mates decide the new vesion of windows is now ok before you give it a
(realistic) try for yourself. enjoy technology as its released and stop living in fear.
buy yourself a decent new pc if your machine is too old to run the new software properly.
if "vista" or any other os for that matter isn't screaming fast on your pentium 2 with
128mb of ram buy a new box and stop your complaining. its not the os at fault, its your
tight ass thats holding you back. so lets hope this time that the positive comments i see
all over the web about windows 7 the "techno tards" become fewer in number and more
people are bought into sync with technology. also lets hope everyone buys a new pc when
they decide they want windows 7 and really enjoy their computing experiences. death to
techno tards! long live future freaks!
yeah - absolutely!
you´re so right-man!
ive read so many d*ckhead's techno bloggers who say how bad vista, the fact is these
d*ckheads are clueless. what the hell do they expect, short of strapping their genitals to
the pc to get the next big os thrill. im sick of them. they should just stick with thier
buggy shitboxes and run windows 95.
power to you sir. you speak what i think every time i hear a retard having a go at vista.
i just hope the price of vista won't rocket up due to this and if microsoft continues to
support it to the full extend without leaving it behind to indulge in windows 7.
we
could finally see vista be the next xp. :d
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By Who cares... on 03.02.2009 - 04:02