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 postpones Winhec 2008 to Fall 2008
Microsoft announced that WinHEC 208 will not be held in the spring as previous years, but in the fall (October probably) of 2008.
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17.11.2007 "Avoid Microsoft Windows Vista until 2008"
New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate anti-spyware or firewall software, according to a new analyst report.
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8.5.2006 Microsoft to launch new Vista-subscription trials in early 2008
Microsoft is readying a new Windows-Vista based version of its FlexGo hardware-software-services bundle aimed at emerging markets.
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17.5.2007 Microsoft to Release Windows Server 2008 RCO, Vista SP1 Beta
Microsoft is about to make available the first release candidate for Windows Server 2008, the first beta for Vista SP1 and a preview of Windows Server virtualization.
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25.9.2007 Microsoft releases Security updates for Beta Windows Vista, Server 2008
Microsoft releases Security updates for Beta Windows Vista, Server 2008!
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15.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 What to expect from Microsoft in 2008
The famous Bink.nu "expect list" is back! Just as previous years, I made a list of what releases we can expect from Microsoft. 2005 and 2006 turned out to be pretty accurate, the only things wrong weren't my mistakes but delays or change of plans.
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20.12.2007 No Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics
The IT systems supporting the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, will not be using Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system.
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30.5.2007 Windows Vista to Explode in 2008
2007 might not have been the Wow's year, but in 2008 Windows Vista will explode. All the starts are aligned for Vista adoption to go through the roof. As a matter of fact, 2008 will prove the first truly fertile year for the Wow from the household to the corporate environment.
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15.11.2007 Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions
It's pundit prediction time again. Here are ten predictions about what I think we'll see in Microsoft land in 2008.
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18.12.2007 Whats New in Microsoft Land: 4 8 February, 2008
The whole week was pretty slow when it came to what everybody expected to come true, Yahoo! accepting the offer that Microsoft put on its table, so everything else kind of remained in this deals shade
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10.2.2008 Whats New in Microsoft Land: 3 7 March, 2008
Microsoft debuted the week on a strong note, slapping Google in the forehead with its own version of web-based office tools, dubbed Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Q4 2008 by the Numbers
For the fiscal 2008 fourth quarter, Microsoft revenue topped $15.84 billion, or an 18 percent year-over-year increase. Operating income was $5.68 billion, or 46 cents per share. Respectively, year-over-year growth was 42 percent and 48 percent.
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22.7.2008 Users may need Vista to make most of Server 2008
Companies installing Windows Server 2008 may have to buy extra Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, to use more advanced features, analyst firm Gartner has said.
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3.11.2007 The Best Windows Vista Blog Contest 2008
WinVistaClub, in association with Windows Vista Magazine, is organising a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista Blogs and Websites.
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13.8.2008 Microsoft Sets 2008 Launch Plans
Microsoft's chief operating officer says that Windows Server 2008--formerly code-named Longhorn Server--will be launched next February along with upgrades of SQL Server and Visual Studio.
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17.7.2007 What will Microsoft share about Windows futures in 2008?
Microsofts 2008 conference dance card is starting to fill in. Its looking like a very busy February and March for the conference-going set. And, as usual with Microsoft, mid-summer will be full of Microsoft industry and insider events.
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17.11.2007 What Windows Goodies to Expect from Microsoft in 2008?
Being as there are but a few days until 2008 kicks in, I thought that I would ask the question 'What to expect out of Microsoft in the coming year?', as well.
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28.12.2007 Microsoft 2008: From Desktop to Data Center
Year In Review. Microsoft had a pretty good year, despite the fourth quarter's global economic crisis.
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30.12.2008 Windows Server 2008 is 20% faster than Vista
It seems Microsoft may have a successor (or replacement) for Vista after all and its already been released. Windows Server 2008 isnt easy to configure as a desktop operating system but when done correctly can be 20% faster than Vista while retaining most of the same features.
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12.3.2008 AutoCollage 2008 for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
AutoCollage 2008 is a project developed by Microsoft Research Cambridge and made available for download as of September 4, 2008.
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4.9.2008 Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft has started private testing of the next version of Office for the Macintosh, which is due out in the second half of the year.
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1.4.2007 Microsoft.com runs on Windows Server 2008 Beta 3!
this great story just arrived my inbox: "...were extremely proud to announce that the www.microsoft.com site is running 100% on our next generation web platform!!"
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14.6.2007Microsoft: Vista piracy rate is half that of XP
Microsoft said Monday that it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP.
Now cyncial me wanted
to write this up as "even pirates prefer XP two to one over Vista," but that wouldn't be fair. In reality, the decline in piracy rates is largely
due to the fact that Vista is much tougher to fake than XP.
"Piracy rates are lower because it's harder," Microsoft Vice
President Mike Sievert said in an interview Monday.
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04.12.2007Windows 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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09.07.2008Copyright board leaves rates unchanged, iTunes lives for another day
The recording industry's efforts to compensate for lagging CD sales by promoting hikes in royalties rates, suffered another serious setback yesterday
in the US as a panel of judges ruled mechanical royalties rates should stay put...
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03.10.2008New EU Mobile Roaming Rates Active
The European Union on Monday
put into effect new roaming
rates for mobile phone users,
which could save customers up
to 70 percent. However, the
new rates won't be
automatically applied to
customers until September;
before then, they are opt-in...
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30.07.2007PRS announce new music streaming rates
PRS for Music, the UK's royalty collection group for music artists and publishers, has announced new, lower minimum rates for online music
streaming services. The new rates will be effective as of July 1. The rates will be reduced from £0.0025p per track streamed down to
£0.00082p. Whilst the headline royalty rates will increase from 8% to 10.5%, the PRS hopes to "stimulate growth in the digital music market,"
according to a press release from them. The new rates will remain the same for three years. PRS say "As new entrants join the market and existing
providers expand, music creators will reap the rewards by sharing in the success that their talent is generating.
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27.05.2009Vista: 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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15.03.2008Blockbuster raises its online rental rates
Essentially ceding its battle for subscribers to Netflix, the company said it planned to raise rates as much as 40 percent...
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21.12.2007Survey: 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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24.07.2008Need 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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10.06.2008McAfee: Businesses will dodge Vista in 2008
Vista uptake is unlikely to increase dramatically during 2008, according to security vendor McAfee, who said that businesses are "leery" of
upgrading from current Microsoft operating systems.
One reason businesses have not been keen to upgrade to Vista is the hardware
that is needed to handle the resource-hungry operating system, David Marcus, security research manager for McAfee Avert Labs, told ZDNet Australia
sister site ZDNet.co.uk.
"In 2007 there has been less than 10 percent market penetration for Vista," said Marcus. "There
hasn't been a huge adoption. Most people haven't upgraded because of the hardware upgrade needed."
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20.11.2007Will 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. 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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26.11.2007Royalties breakthrough: RIAA and media agree on streaming rates
While legislation before Congress languishes in the midst of two wars and now a severe financial crisis, the major parties in the online music
royalties debate have actually come to an agreement on compromise rates...
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24.09.2008Will 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.
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21.02.2008Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
Forrester Research has issued a new study in which it predicts that at least one-third of enterprises will begin to deploy Windows Vista
enterprise-wide by mid-2008.
Driving Vista adoption will be an increase in applications certified as Vista-compatible and new PC
form factors which are ready to run Vista smoothly and at price points will make compatible machines more affordable than they are today, the
Forrester researchers said in their
How Windows
Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System report, released on November 12.
Forrester acknowledged
that a number of businesses are waiting for Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 before starting their Vista deployment rollouts. But according to current
schedule, Vista SP1 is set to roll out in the first calendar quarter of next year.
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14.11.2007Microsoft 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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27.03.2007Report: MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com
It looks like Microsoft is getting desperate about the dismal rates of Silverlight adoption by consumers and developers since its release earlier this
year. According to NeoSmart Technologies, Microsoft is
preparing a fully Silverlight-powered redesign of their website, doing away with most HTML pages entirely. With over 60 million
unique users visiting Microsoft.com a month, Microsoft's last-ditch effort might be what it takes to breathe some life back into Silverlight. The
article notes: 'At the moment, very few non-Microsoft-owned sites are using Silverlight at all; let alone for the entire UI.'
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