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February 3, 2009
To most IT people and many in the business community, the Windows Vista operating system has never been
a good topic of conversation and has certainly frustrated more than one. There's even a joke in familiar
Microsoft circles that Bill Gates himself never liked it...
Moving up (why would you say up when it's really moving DOWN!) from Windows XP to Windows Vista isn't
exactly a worry-free process either, and computers that run Windows XP comfortably may have a lot of trouble
powering Windows Vista, and understandably so.
Not surprisingly, overall adoption of Windows Vista OS has been slow- EXTREMELY slow.
According to a recent Forrester study, more than two long years after Vista's original release, the
operating system is still struggling hard in the business sector, and there dosen't seem to be any relief
anytime soon.
Overall, Windows Vista has been and continues to be a real failure in the enterprise market. To make matters
worse for Microsoft, with Windows 7 on the very near horizon, companies have even less reason to migrate to Vista,
let alone Windows 7. And why would they? As the old saying goes: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" would
certainly apply here...
Others are saying "why migrate to Vista now, when you can migrate to Windows 7 only a few months from now?"
But this could very well explain Microsoft's insistence on a 2010 official release date of Windows 7,
even though every indication points towards a release before the holiday season of 2009. Humm, November 30,
2009?
Time will tell.
It would appear that the software giant is trying its best to make it a bit more positive for the
failing XP successor by also stating that about 31 percent of IT decision makers "have begun their migration"
to Vista. Of course this can't be further than the truth.
So some are now asking: can this mean anything from reading Micorsoft's Vista pages to actually placing
more orders for newer PCs? You decide for yourself...
Forrester's most recent OS study is called "Enterprises Warming To Windows Vista", but that's only
because Forrester is trying to put a slightly positive note on the very negative adoption numbers of Windows
Vista in the enterprise and business market.
In July 2008, a report from that same Forrester stated that Vista adoption in enterprises was stuck at less
than 8.8 percent, compared to Windows XP's greater than 87 percent market share. Forrester even called Vista
the "New Coke".
Today's Forrester report places Windows Vista adoption at "just fewer than 10 percent of all computers
within enterprises."
Food for thought. Must that mean we need to read and interpret Forrester's reports with a grain of salt
in the near future?
Source: Tech Blog.
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