Windows 7 spurs IT spending growth
What a difference an OS makes. Many IT departments of corporations and companies weren’t keen on Vista, and no wonder, as it had both genuine problems and an over-hyped bad reputation. But that’s all changed with Windows 7.
Microsoft can please home users all it likes but to really hit the big numbers it needs to please corporate consumers. If a company upgrades all the computers in its network to the latest operating system then Microsoft has hit a home run. The bigger the company the better, obviously.
Windows Vista was a failure in this department, with many corporations shunning the much-maligned OS, sticking with XP while waiting for Windows 7.
Microsoft released Windows 7 on Oct. 22, and it has experienced a very positive response, both from home users and corporate customers. ChangeWave recently published the results of its November corporate IT spending survey, and the results speak for themselves.
Of those corporations who have already upgraded to Windows 7, 93 percent are satisfied with the OS. That figure breaks down further into 37 percent which are “very satisfied” and 56 percent which are “somewhat satisfied.” That’s up 1 percent on a similar survey from July which asked users of the Windows 7 beta what they thought.
Nearly one in five of the 1,700 U.S. corporate IT buyers surveyed stated that Windows 7 is speeding up the upgrade cycle at their company. This has resulted in the strongest spending growth in IT spending in two years, with respondents claiming 73 percent of companies plan to buy laptops and 69 percent desktops in the first quarter of 2010.
This is just the start of the good news for Microsoft. Not only has it released a good OS that is selling to corporations, but the increased spending will also see other Microsoft products bought in greater numbers. 26 percent of respondents claimed their company was set to increase spending on Microsoft products in the next quarter.
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