Recent survey paints bleak picture of Vista adoption
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
Friday's story regarding Microsoft's compelling Mojave initiative referenced the tepid adoption rates of Vista in the corporate environment. A report released this week by Forrester Research has revealed punishing supporting figures that paint an unfortunate picture of Vista in the business world.
The survey, a six month process including 50,000 users in 2,300 large to very large companies, revealed that only 8.8 percent of users are running Windows Vista after February's service pack 1 (SP1) release. The findings go on to show that Windows XP is healthier than ever with a commanding 87.1 majority of Windows workstations.
A June report written by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and obtained by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggests that "a year of overwhelmingly bad publicity, coupled with opportunities for continued XP 'downgrades' or potentially skipping over Vista for Windows 7" have combined to meaningfully erode Vista's adoption.
Thursday's annual financial analyst meeting allowed Microsoft to paint a different picture that contradicts the findings of Forrester and other research groups.
"On the enterprise side...we saw a very strong acceleration post Service Pack 1. You saw those enterprises accelerating that deployment...we're seeing that track very consistently with the deployment cycle we saw in enterprises around XP," said Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of the Windows Business Group.
Microsoft strove to reinforce its new outlook on the value of security. The firm hopes to inspire confidence in the viability of Vista as a safer platform than windows XP.
"Today, you have a platform and a product that is 62 percent more secure than what we delivered in Windows XP SP2 and effectively the conversation with businesses and consumers relative to the security of Windows is not an issue for us based on that," Veghte said.
The statistical back-and-forth will be a never-ending battle between various interested parties. Perhaps we will not know the ultimate fate -- or importance -- of Vista until Windows 7 is released in a few years.
The survey, a six month process including 50,000 users in 2,300 large to very large companies, revealed that only 8.8 percent of users are running Windows Vista after February's service pack 1 (SP1) release. The findings go on to show that Windows XP is healthier than ever with a commanding 87.1 majority of Windows workstations.
A June report written by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and obtained by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggests that "a year of overwhelmingly bad publicity, coupled with opportunities for continued XP 'downgrades' or potentially skipping over Vista for Windows 7" have combined to meaningfully erode Vista's adoption.
Thursday's annual financial analyst meeting allowed Microsoft to paint a different picture that contradicts the findings of Forrester and other research groups.
"On the enterprise side...we saw a very strong acceleration post Service Pack 1. You saw those enterprises accelerating that deployment...we're seeing that track very consistently with the deployment cycle we saw in enterprises around XP," said Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of the Windows Business Group.
Microsoft strove to reinforce its new outlook on the value of security. The firm hopes to inspire confidence in the viability of Vista as a safer platform than windows XP.
"Today, you have a platform and a product that is 62 percent more secure than what we delivered in Windows XP SP2 and effectively the conversation with businesses and consumers relative to the security of Windows is not an issue for us based on that," Veghte said.
The statistical back-and-forth will be a never-ending battle between various interested parties. Perhaps we will not know the ultimate fate -- or importance -- of Vista until Windows 7 is released in a few years.
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Microsoft is missing the point. Vista is not a bad OS by itself. However, it STILL trashes much of the installed XP base.
In the mean time, the percentages in my company that are improving significantly are Linux and Mac. In some cases, they can run legacy Microsoft code better than Vista can.
Get a clue....