Vista is barely ahead of Windows 98 in business market share
Vista is not liked much in the business world, mostly due to legacy compatibility problems which Microsoft isn’t going to fix because that’s not really their problem, it falls on the business for liking to use, old, useless software and hardware but that’s not the point. The point is Vista barely has more market share than Windows 98 on the business side.
Softpedia reports that Sunbelt released some information taken by its CounterSpy software and logging visits to its website. What they found was that Windows XP has a majority market share of nearly 83%, Windows 2000 with about 15%, Windows Server 2003 with 1.8%, Vista at 0.32% and Windows 98 in last place at 0.03%.
Being just ahead of Windows 98 in the business world is certainly no win for Vista but it is doing slightly better on the home user side of things with about 9% of Sunbelt users running some version of Vista.
It probably comes down to the whole SP1 thing with many businesses waiting for the final version to be released. Microsoft has downplayed this all along but it fails to realize the importance that businesses place on the service pack.
So far, there seems to be almost no down side to installing the preview beta service pack except the long installation time, if you believe the folks at PCMag.
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“…it falls on the business for liking to use, old, useless software and hardware but that’s not the point.”
That old, useless software and hardware probably generates income and is stable.How’s it working out on your laptop? I know a few business folks pissed because of 5 years of Software Assurance payments resulting in this unstable resource hog. It took 7 years for this? Businesses aren’t going to upgrade all their PC’s, retrain staff for Aero. It took 2 service packs and years of pain to get a semi-secure platform. Now Redmond is surprised they have no credibility. What are the pluses for switching? Microsoft should be grateful OS X can’t run major financial software.
January 16th, 2008
That’s microsoft’s biggest advantage.
It’s not windows but the software that runs on top of it.