Businesses refuse to adopt Windows Vista
By Triston McIntyre
Perhaps one of the largest factors to Vista’s success or failure is whether or not companies choose to adopt the new Windows Vista operating system, stick with the tried and true XP, or hold off until Windows 7. It would seem that businesses don’t see any perks to adopting Vista, which doesn’t bode well for Microsoft.
A recent article in Business Week unveils the true perspectives large businesses and corporations have on adopting Microsoft’s newest Windows operating system. For the CIO of Alaska Airlines, upgrading to Vista just isn’t smart. He said, “There’s no business value in us continuing to chase that upgrade cycle.”
It isn’t smart business because the small improvements Vista holds over XP are negligible in comparison to the costs of upgrading both software and hardware. Additionally, training IT departments for a completely new OS is a spendy venture, and not worth it, at least to most businesses.
A second reason business aren’t keen on adopting Vista is because many quality business applications are available on the internet or as open source applications; implementing the rather expensive Microsoft variants takes a toll on businesses’ budgets.
Many businesses are figuring that the largest improvements to the line of Windows operating systems will come with Windows 7. As Vista demands hefty hardware upgrades, many businesses are opting to save those upgrading costs until the benefits at least compare to the cost.
If businesses are truly abandoning Vista, Microsoft’s sales numbers will show a definite hit. Businesses comprise a large portion of operating system sales for Microsoft, and Microsoft might be forced to speed up delivery on Windows 7 to recoup those costs.
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May 18th, 2008
Hopefully Microsoft will get a painful lesson out of this Vista fiasco. Not only is Vista in trouble with the plenty of software/hardware compatibility issues, the lack of stability, the unnecessary resources it takes to operate and the lack of performance compared to XP, it also has let power users like me down by offering features that are geared for the computer illiterate such as a new file explorer that totally lacks the speediness and ease of use of that found in XP and also a ton of useless features such as icon animation and blinking lights to mention a few. Such features are best left to be supported by third party companies that add value by creating a secondary market for software. Microsoft has also done irreparable damage to the loyalty of some Windows die hard users with its
typical measures of trying to sack it’s previous operating systems in favor of Vista. If you install XP side by side with Vista in a dual boot configuration, the boot manager lists XP as ‘other operating system’. Ha-ha-ha, in a typical Microsoft fashion the company refuses to acknowledge the existence of it’s past efforts. The company also completely let the business users down by refusing to roll out another service pack for XP to fix the daylight issue. Business as usual, Microsoft just bluntly likes to send the following message out to the Windows community: You either do whatever we tell you or else…