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Despite cheery statements about increasing adoptions, new surveys show IT is still skeptical about deploying Vista in the enterprise.

Microsoft executives put their best face on Windows Vista sales at the company's annual financial analysts meeting Thursday when they presented their year-end results and year-ahead plans to stock pickers. However, despite selling some 180 million licenses for Vista to date, two new surveys of IT decision makers paint a significantly bleaker picture of Vista's near-term prospects in the enterprise. Translation, large-scale deployments may have to wait until Vista's follow on release -- codenamed Windows 7 -- ships a year and a half from now or so. A six month survey of 50,000 users in 2,300 large to very large enterprises, released this week by Forrester Research, found that even after Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), only 8.8 percent of Windows users are running Vista so far. That compares unfavorably with 87.1 percent for Windows users running Windows XP. RELATED ARTICLES Microsoft Dinged Despite Hefty Revenues Microsoft to Keep Spending Big on Search No New Kernel On Tap for Windows 7 Volume Buyers to Get Vista SP1 Early When Is a Downgrade a Good Thing? For more stories on this topic: In addition, this latest survey goes against a pre-SP1 survey that Forrester released late last year. Other analysis firms have also been tracking sluggish uptake of Vista among corporate customers lately, even after the first quarter's release of SP1. For instance, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. reported in June that... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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