Microsoft Applauds Growing Windows Vista Adoption
Windows Vista sales have long jumped over the milestone of 180 million licenses offered in mid-2008 by Microsoft, and while failing to come out with a different figure, the Redmond giant revealed that the adoption rate of the latest Windows client is steadfast.
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26.8.2008 AMD beats Intel in Vista adoption
Speaking at the Bank of America Technology conference in San Francisco, Intel's Paul Otellini was asked about his take on Vista and whether it could drive demand.
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9.3.2007 Linux Adoption Slows Down – Windows Vista Didn't Do It!
The adoption of the Linux open source operating system indicates a strong trend of slowing down to a scratching halt, but this is one scenario that the availability of Windows Vista failed to catalyze and to even impact, for that matter.
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6.9.2007 Did Microsoft's Security Focus Hurt Vista Adoption?
Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
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26.11.2007 Microsoft: XP SP2 Adoption Lags Overseas
More than a year after Microsoft Corp. shipped Windows XP Service Pack 2 as a massive security-centric OS makeover, customer adoption internationally continues to lag at disappointing levels, according to a senior Redmond executive. Stuart McKee, Microsoft's U.S. National Technology Officer, said the overall install rate of XP SP2 was just shy of 70 percent, but in countries such as Spain and Korea, adoption of the service pack dips into the 50 percent range.
In Japan, Germany and France, the install rate is in the range of 75 percent, McKee said. During a keynote at the Security Summit East here, McKee said Microsoft has so far distributed more than 250 million copies of XP SP2 to provide a hardened shell around the operating system but the low upgrade levels remains a disappointment.
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16.12.2005 XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 – Service Pack Adoption
Microsoft's decision to have both Windows XP and Windows Vista available concomitantly on the market was a move that inherently backfired against the company.
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22.8.2008 Will XP SP3 Slow Vistas Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
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21.2.2008 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Microsoft boxes up Vista
Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer.
Microsoft has settled on six versions, including an Ultimate edition that will combine the best of the company's corporate and consumer features. The company is aiming to have all of the versions ready for launch in the second half of this year.
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27.2.2006 Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor
Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed.
In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication to gain access to a computer without to the PC user knowing.
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5.3.2006 Vista Might be too Complex for Microsoft
It will not have escaped your attention that Microsoft is laboring to finish the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. A version aimed at the corporate market is supposed to be ready for Christmas, with the consumer edition following some time later (missing the Christmas market, which has irritated computer manufacturers and retailers more than somewhat). Last week, Gartner, a leading IT consultancy, predicted that Microsoft would miss those shipping dates.
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12.5.2006 Microsoft Vista is still a mess
We've had the pleasure of using Vista since its very early builds. The first release candidate is now upon us, and was made available to download by TechBeta and Technology Adoption Program program subscribers last week.
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13.9.2006 Windows Vista at Microsoft
Last Friday I took the plunge and upgraded my main work laptop (Sony VGN-TX3XP 11" Ultra-Portable) to Windows Vista RTM.
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10.11.2006 Microsoft to Testers: After Vista, What Next?
Windows Vista isn't even quite out the door, but Microsoft is already soliciting testers to tell them what should be in the next versions of Windows.
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21.12.2006 Microsoft Vista slow to take off
Windows Vista has been on the market for nearly a month now, but enterprise users and industry experts agree that Microsoft's latest and greatest OS still isn't yet ready to replace XP.
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3.1.2007 Microsoft: Vista upgrades for everybody
Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores which are always having a 'closing down' sale. 'Full' prices are set laughably high only to make you think you're getting an amazing discount, because no-one pays the marked price.
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27.4.2007 So Where is Microsoft Vista SP1?
The April 25 release of a feature-complete Windows Server "Longhorn" beta is a monumental milestone for Microsoft, perhaps more important than the launch of Windows Vista.
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1.5.2007 What to do if Microsoft locks you out of Vista?
"What to do if Microsoft locks you out of Vista?" - This is question of lot of our users in last time, so here are some advices.
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17.8.2007 What Microsoft doesn't want you to know about Vista SP1
Microsoft touts performance and reliability as the key benefits of Vista's SP1, but a close look at the beta shows a significant change Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to know about --- you can now easily change your default desktop search tool to Google Desktop Search, or any another one.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft Makes Its Own: 32-bit Windows Vista vs. 64-bit Windows Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivered both the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors concomitantly, a first for the company, whose Windows XP x64 Professional (April, 2005) was launched one year after Windows XP SP2 (August 2005) and four after the initial 32-bit Windows XP (2001).
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8.1.2008 Microsoft: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP – Definitely Vista!
As far as Microsoft is concerned there is only one choice possible in terms of desktop clients. But Windows Vista is also the clear option over Windows XP when it comes down to the Redmond company's preferred operating system for mobile PCs.
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6.9.2007 Microsoft Vista shuts out other OSes
When Microsoft's Vista arrives on machines, it looks like it may need a trusted platform model (TPM) chip to be present on the system.
That's just one element of what Microsoft dubs "multi tiered data protection", and the firm says that it will support full volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems.
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Microsoft Ships Second Vista CTP
As expected, Microsoft has shipped the October Community Technology Preview of Windows Vista, embarking on what the company hopes will be monthly test releases of the operating system. Build 5231 first surfaced last week and brings changes to Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Vista's networking.
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Microsoft: No Sidebar Until Vista Beta 2
Testers and developers looking forward to playing with Vista's most prominent new feature over the holidays will have to wait a bit longer. Microsoft officials confirmed to BetaNews late Monday that the Windows Sidebar won't be delivered in a public build until Beta 2.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft to Skip Vista Beta 2
Redmond is planning to rely more on Community Technology Previews for Windows input, and has two new Vista test builds planned for the next two calendar quarters.
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28.1.2006 Microsoft Is Counting Its Vista Chickens
Microsoft has some lofty goals for Windows Vista. In the first 24 months the product is shipping, company officials are expecting to have it preloaded on 200 million PCs worldwide.
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7.2.2006Vista: Victim of Enterprise Malaise
Joe Wilcox: Windows Vista probably deserves a break, but it won't be getting one from enterprises.
Majorwhat Microsoft would
callmilestones aren't driving enterprises to radically change their Vista adoption plans. Even I'm surprised. I expected the release of Windows
Vista Service Pack 1 or the end of Windows XP OEM sales to mean something for Vista adoption. Nope.
If Vista were a person, it
might have an insecurity complex from all the rejectionand for good reason. Not since Windows Me has a Microsoft operating system seen such cool
market reception. Based on a recent eWEEK survey of more than 400 IT decision makers, enterprises aren't lessening their resistance, even when there
is good reason.
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18.07.2008eWEEK Survey: Vista? Gimme XP
Joe Wilcox: Two operating systems are holding back Windows Vista adoption: Windows XP andeh, wellVista.
A new
eWEEK enterprise survey validates many of this blog's
perspectives about Windows Vista. XP stands in the way, and enterprises are hugely underwhelmed by successor Vista.
While
consistent with other Vista adoption surveys, eWEEK's study makes an important distinction between primary and secondary operating systems and puts
them in context of small, midsize and large business Vista migration plans. The distinction is vital to understanding businesses' real response to
Vista.
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15.03.2008Will XP SP3 Slow Vista`s Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry. The upcoming
release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the older operating
system, some analysts say.
Microsoft quietly released Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company
finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security to protect its large installed base of business customers still running
XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new Vista operating system. But the more secure, stable and reliable XP is,
the less reason they have to upgrade in a hurry.
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21.02.2008Did Microsoft's Security Focus Hurt Vista Adoption?
Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and
enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
Microsoft spent a good deal of
time and money to ensure Vista's security after Windows XP and applications running on it proved susceptible to devastating worms like Blaster,
Slammer and MyDoom. Though Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2 to remedy some vulnerabilities, the company decided that security would be a
top priority for the next major Windows release, said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of Microsoft's Response and Product Centers.
"The security part of Vista was talked about a lot because it was a primary concern all over the world," he said.
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26.11.2007Will XP SP3 Slow Vista's Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
The upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the
older operating system, some analysts say.
Microsoft
quietly released Windows XP
Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security
to protect its large installed base of business customers still running XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new
Vista operating system.
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21.02.2008Microsoft says Vista adoption is about 2% in enterprise
Microsoft's John Curran, head of the Windows Client Group, said that a survey by Computer Business Review found 2% of UK enterprises have upgraded to
Vista, is roughly where Microsoft pegs current adoption in the enterprise too.
Computer Business Review (CBRonline.com) found in
a survey of 300 senior decision-makers in the UK that 2% of enterprises had already upgraded their desktops to Windows Vista.
"Those numbers are consistent with how we would see it so far in our core markets like the US, UK, and so on," Curran said.
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01.02.2008Microsoft Releases Updated
Vista Build
Microsoft over the weekend
made available an updated
build of Windows Vista, but
only to a limited subset of
testers in its Technology
Adoption Partner (TAP)
program. The interim release,
numbered 5342, includes minor
fixes and user interface
tweaks, and is labeled an EDW
build...
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27.03.2006Microsoft: First Month Vista Sales Double XP
Responding to media reports
that initial adoption of
Windows Vista has been slow
and news that certain
government agencies are
holding off on upgrading,
Microsoft announced Monday
that it sold more than 20
million copies of Vista in the
first month - double the
copies of Windows XP sold in
its first month...
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27.03.2007Windows Vista adoption in the chemical industry - Eastman and PPG
This past week, we released Windows Vista adoption case studies for
Eastman Chemical and
PPG. The Eastman story focuses on the timing of
their refresh cycle and their evaluation of whether to stay on Windows XP or move to Vista. The Vista decision came from a number of factors,
not the least of which is getting better control and limiting administrator privileges to their corporate machines. As part of their
rollout plan, they did a small pilot to their North American IT group of 350 users in October, 2007, and then to the broader global IT group soon
after. After a successful pilot, they began deploying in February, 2008 and expect to be rolled out to most/all of its 10,000 users by August,
2008.
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09.07.2008Need answers about Windows Vista? New Windows Client TechCenter Launches
Chris Flores: This year at TechEd we are launching the new unified Windows Client TechCenter. The new TechCenter is now the official new home to the
Springboard Series of online resources (
www.microsoft.com/springboard ) . This is a critical component of the Windows Vista
deployment and management story.
With Windows Vista we built a number of capabilities into the product itself, as well as number
of tools to prepare for implementation. The piece that's been missing is structured guidance along adoption path that helps IT Professionals learn
how new features and capabilities can assist common tasks and also how to pre-empt and address key challenges upfront... We're aiming to deliver this
final piece through the new Windows Client TechCenter, which shares candid best practices from real-world experiences. For instance, check out
Springboard Series articles such as
Five Windows Vista adoption "Gotchas" and how to get beyond them. The
new site offers a consolidated repository of resources across the adoption lifecycle, new troubleshooting zones and community components.
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10.06.2008Survey: Vista Adoption Weakens, as IT Pros Eye Apple
A KACE-sponsored survey on Windows Vista adoption represents more bad news for Microsoft's flagship operating system, even as Microsoft prepares to
pour
an estimated $300 million into a new Vista marketing campaign -- news that
was announced at Microsoft's 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference.
<...> This survey found a slip in Windows Vista deployment
plans, with 60 percent of respondents saying that they had "no plans to deploy Vista at this time," compared with 53 percent in the 2007 survey.
The respondents also appeared to reject the "common wisdom" that people were simply waiting for Service Pack 1 to deploy Vista,
with the idea that initial bugs and incompatibilities would be worked out by then. A solid 92 percent of survey respondents said that "Vista Service
Pack 1 has not changed their plans for Vista deployment."
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24.07.2008Study: Vista to Create Jobs, Revenue
A Microsoft-sponsored study
says that Windows Vista will
generate some $70 billion in
revenue and create up to
100,000 jobs in the first year
of its release. The report
also forecasts rapid and
widespread adoption of the OS...
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12.12.2006Study: Vista to Create Jobs, Spur Revenue
A Microsoft-sponsored study
says that Windows Vista will
generate some $70 billion in
revenue and create up to
100,000 jobs in the first year
of its release. The report
also forecasts rapid and
widespread adoption of the OS...
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11.12.2006Windows Vista hurting SSD development, claims SanDisk CEO
Microsoft's Windows Vista is to blame for slowing down the progress -- and, in turn, adoption-- of solid state drives (SSDs), according to Sandisk
Chairman and CEO Eli Harari...
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23.07.2008Small Businesses Switch to Vista Fastest, Study Says
Nearly half of businesses are in some phase of preparing to update desktops to Windows Vista, with small businesses moving the fastest to implement
the OS, according to a xreport released last week. The number of organizations evaluating and testing Vista increased from 29 percent in February 2007
to 48 percent by early November 2007, found the report, commissioned by reseller CDW and based on information collected by Walker Information from 772
IT decision makers. Moreover, about 35 percent of companies are currently implementing or have implemented Vista already, compared to 12 percent last
February, the report said. The report is the third of a wave of reports on Vista adoption that CDW has done since the OS was in its final testing
phases in October 2006. In the latest phase of release, which tracked Vista adoption from October 31 until Nov. 7, 2007, small businesses comprised 53
percent of those companies either using or evaluating Vista. The higher-education segment came in second, with 49 percent reporting that they are
evaluating or using the OS, while medium-to-large businesses were third, with 48 percent.
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21.01.2008Novell CEO: We're Going to 'Attack' Vista
The 'alliance' between
Novell and Microsoft got a bit
weirder after Novell's CEO
indicated that he was pleased
by Vista's slow rate of
adoption, and will continue to
battle the company directly in
the marketplace...
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15.02.2007Small businesses not as dependent on XP moving to Vista fastest
Nearly half of businesses are in some phase of preparing to update desktops to Windows Vista, with small businesses moving the fastest to implement
the OS, according to a report released Monday.
The number of organizations evaluating and testing Vista increased from 29% in
February 2007 to 48% by early November 2007, found the report, commissioned by reseller CDW and based on information collected by Walker Information
from 772 IT decision makers. Moreover, about 35% of companies are currently implementing or have implemented Vista already, compared to 12% last
February, the report said.
The report is the third of a wave of reports on Vista adoption that CDW has done since the OS was in
its final testing phases in October 2006. In the latest phase of release, which tracked Vista adoption from Oct. 31 to Nov. 7, 2007, small businesses
comprised 53% of those companies either using or evaluating Vista. The higher-education segment came in second, with 49% reporting that they are
evaluating or using the OS, while medium-to-large businesses were third, with 48%.
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15.01.2008Office 2007 more palatable than Vista
Office 2007's excellent adoption rate seems to be the
complete opposite of Vista in the enterprise: "Around a quarter of enterprises plan to upgrade to Vista in 2008 although
Forrester said companies may change plans and wait for the release of Windows 7 - pencilled in for the second half of 2009."
Microsoft Corp. made a good move by not linking Office 2007 with Windows Vista, an analyst said today.
"It was a smart
decision to decouple the two," said Kyle McNabb, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., contrasting the relative success of the two product lines.
"The Office team in particular did well to make sure that Office wasn't coupled with Vista but was with SharePoint. That SharePoint 'drag' has
been very positive for Microsoft."
Office 2007 adoption surveys conducted with about 250 IT decision-makers in North America,
the U.K., France and Germany found that 93% of enterprises plan to deploy part or all of the suite within the next 12 months, McNabb said. More than
four in every 10 companies polled already have Office 2007 in the hands of workers.
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03.04.2008Dell says Windows 7 price is possible barrier
Windows 7 pricing is potentially an obstacle to Windows 7 adoption for some users, though in just about every other aspect the operating system is
beating Vista, according to a Dell marketing executive.
"If there's one thing that may influence adoption, make things slower
or cause customers to pause, it's that generally the ASPs (average selling price) of the operating systems are higher than they were for Vista and
XP," Darrel Ward, director of product management for Dell's business client product group, said in a phone interview, referring to the various
versions of the Windows 7 operating system that are expected to appear.
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18.05.2009Chat with Mark Russinovich About Deploying Vista
Rodney Buike: So Vista SP1 has RTM'd for most IT Pros that is the mark to start deploying Vista. As you ramp up with this deployment project
wouldn't it be great to talk to experts in the field to hear some best practices and ask questions? Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru
Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtablebroadcast LIVE over the
Internet on Wednesday, March 5th. The subject? Windows Vista adoption and deployment. On the panel with Mark will be independent industry experts and
IT pros from organizations that have already deployed Windows Vistaall openly discussing known challenges, solutions and workarounds, and sharing tips
& tricks. But this event is really focused on the “virtual” participantyou!
Visit
http://ms.istreamplanet.com/events at 9:00am Pacific Time on March 5th and ask your questions live
during the event. Want to submit your question in advance? You can do that too by e-mailing your question to
vrtable@microsoft.com anytime between now and the day of the event. The panel will answer as many questions
as they can during the 60-minute event so take advantage of this opportunity to ask the experts and find out what you want to know about Windows Vista
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