Businesses just say "no" to Vista
Microsoft has been downplaying the importance of releasing Service Pack 1 for Vista but that’s exactly what many businesses are waiting for. It’s very doubtful that any large corporation will deploy Vista on a large scale before SP1 is released though some have small scale deployments.
Concerns over hardware incompatibilities, system requirements, upgrade problems regarding both hardware and software with the cost involved have caused many businesses to put plans on upgrading to Vista on hold.
According to Forrester, “most” of the 45 IT managers it spoke to are going to wait for Vista SP1 before even considering deploying the new operating system. The initial survey conducted back in 2006 found that nearly 84% of some 1,600 IT managers planned to deploy Vista within the first two years.
Those plans did not materialize “due to the intricacies of running such large, complex and distributed corporate environments.” Vista is still doing “well” among consumers and small to medium businesses but large businesses and corporations are still saying no to large scale deployments.
Not many of the IT managers spoken to plan to move away from a Windows platform (surprised? I’m not) and it’s not a matter of if Vista will be deployed, it is when and when depends on Microsoft’s time frame for getting the final version of Vista SP1 out the door. Not even that means Vista will be adopted immediately after SP1 is released, it just means many businesses will be reevaluating the situation and going from there.
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August 15th, 2007
“Vista is still doing “well†among consumers”
Many of my friends and myself who buy a new laptop for the university, came with vista… we hate it, lots of problems, a LOT… all drop it to install xp…
August 15th, 2007
There are some having problems, some not… though it would be difficult to attribute exact percentages to that.
All of my friends (in college) have computers with Vista and have had no problems so there’s some give and take here.
August 15th, 2007
At this point, the only reason I see for upgrading to Vista is the games, which might explain why it’s doing well with consumers. I don’t see what it can offer to business, aside from maybe an marginally improved version of Office.
August 15th, 2007
Well, Office 2007 does run on XP as well… I don’t blame businesses for not moving over because there isn’t much there for them as they’d have to replace almost every single system, printer, scanner and other peripherals in use, an expensive venture.