Remember that some of these companies have contracts with Microsoft, and
that means that they are paying them anyway, even if they don't install
Vista...
Just imagine how much they have vista, if they are paying them, but still
prefer XP.. LOL
Vista is so crap!
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista-is-New-Coke-/0,130061733,339290844,00.htm?feed=rss
Vista is "New Coke"
Mike Ricciuti , CNET News.com
25 July 2008 07:20 AM
In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft:
Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January.
The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000 companies surveyed
use Vista.
More troubling for Microsoft may be the fact that most of those Vista
installs are replacing versions of Windows other than Windows XP, which
remains popular with both businesses and consumers. Forrester said 87.1 per
cent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP.
In the report, Forrester analyst Thomas Mendel wrote that Vista is "New
Coke," and saw a strong case for bypassing the release altogether.
"Windows 7 is penciled for release in Q1 2010. And who knows, by then, Apple
may have even gotten its enterprise act together," Mendel writes.
Microsoft has been touting the fact that Vista adoption is actually on par
with past releases, pointing to some new customers, such as the U.S. Air
Force. Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte told ZDNet.com.au sister
site CNET News on Wednesday in the US that at the end of June, Vista was
actually tracking slightly ahead of Windows XP in corporate adoption at the
same stage in its lifecycle.
But even some of the company's showcase early adopter customers are moving
more slowly to Vista than originally planned. Continental Airlines said in
June of last year that it expected to have 7,000 to 10,000 desktops moved to
the operating system by the end of last year. As of May, it had only shifted
about 2,600 machines to Vista. Continental now expects the majority of its
machines to be on Vista by the end of this year, according to a recent white
paper.