InternetThe View Beyond Vista
Has Microsoft written off Vista? The 18-month-old desktop OS has yet to gain significant traction, and rumblings of the next generation are starting to be heard.
Why use an operating system other organizations have rejected? That's a question many enterprises will be asking themselves when considering moving some or all of their Windows desktops to Microsoft Vista. A small minority of organizations run Linux or Mac OS X on the desktop and have no interest in Vista for that reason. But most others will at least consider migrating. And these businesses are overwhelmingly rejecting Vista, according to a report called "Enterprise Trends: Vista Is Rejected; Mozilla and Apple Make Small Gains," which Forrester Research published in late July. "Eighteen months after the release of Windows Vista, enterprise adoption is still in the single digits, and the majority of that seems to have come from upgrades of legacy Windows versions, not XP," the report says. It's not surprising that enterprises running Windows 98 or the despised Windows ME (surely they can't have been running anything older) are upgrading to Vista. That's because migrating to a new OS is a major change, so it makes no sense to move to anything but the most current one. The real revelation is that significant numbers of organizations are still running these legacy operating systems. RELATED ARTICLES Microsoft to Begin Pushing XP SP3 to Users Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? IBM, Linux and the Microsoft-Free PC More IT Shops Plan to Wait for Windows 7 For more stories on this topic: But of the vast numbers... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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