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Just under half--48 percent--of IT decision makers in the U.S. are using or evaluating Vista, according to a poll by IT services firm CDW.
CDW's third Windows Vista tracking poll since October 2006, this survey shows a 19 percentage-point increase in adoption since February 2007.
Vista migration is also increasing, with 35 percent of those surveyed saying they are in the process of moving to Vista. Just 12 percent said this last February. Thirteen percent of these migrations are complete and another third are due to be finished by May 2008.
CDW claimed this shows Microsoft's latest operating system is now seen as a more viable option in the mainstream business market.
Of those still testing and migrating to Vista, almost half said its performance and key features are "above expectations," with the top-rated features being security, performance, productivity, search, and updates.
Mark Gambill, CDW vice president, said the past year was one of "adaptations and learning for Microsoft, industry partners, and adopters alike."
Gambill added that, since people have begun to understand the benefits of the operating system, there has been a "steady move towards adoption."
The CDW survey also found an increase in Microsoft Office 2007 adoption, with 24 percent of businesses saying they'd made the move, compared to just 6 percent in the last survey.
The poll was conducted by Walker Information and covered 772 IT decision makers.
Tim Ferguson of Silicon.com reported from London.
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1. The new version supports more memory. If you can stick more ram in a computer that runs the new OS, that is an advantage.
2. More storage. If you can use larger hard drives, that is an advantage.
3. wider bit depth. If the New OS supports 128 VS 64 bit, that could be an advantage.
Other than the three items above, every new version of windows has been a downgrade. They have used more ram, they have eaten more clock cycles. If Microsoft were to release a version of Windows 95 that supported 64 bit code, 8GB of ram and 1TB hard drives, I would upgrade to that in an instant (I miss the ability to boot into a single tasking mode that lets you devote 100% of your cycles to the run that will take 16 days to finish. The same run would only take 8 days from the command prompt. That is why all real computing is done from Linux, BSD or the like.)
At the Moment, I don't have any 128 bit code that I would run on a windows platform. 8GB of ram is quite enough (For my Windows computers). One terabyte hard drives are solving most of my problems. Why would I toss a bunch of clock cycles at my OS just so I can have a bunch of animated dancing flowers as my desktop image?
Vista was the best thing that ever happened to Mac and OSS platforms. Two of the above vendors currently using SQL are exploring MySQL on Linux and java/web based clients. Health care sure isn't warming up to anything from MS these days, the response is outright glacial.
CDW is not going to say "man nobody is moving to Vista, stay away from it, we dont need the money anyways".
Lame
Also, if people are really surprised that the performance of Vista met/exceeded their expectations then their expectations for Vista must have been set very low. For the business environment, this is Windows ME all over again. We weathered the storm back then with Windows 98SE and we'll weather the Vista storm with Windows XP.
Microsoft needs to reinvent itself with a new more Linux/Unix like operating system. The Windows line reminds me of a car from the 70's that never took the lead out of it's gasoline. You knew the car wasn't good for your health or the environment...but the industry kept on telling you it really wasn't that bad. Cough, cough...
On the consumer side, Vista-preinstalled is already the standard on new computers.
your time, effort, and resources to move to something that will
actually benefit your company instead of force it to do business like
everyone else.
I use Vista Business on my notebook and I have yet to find any advantage of Vista over XP Pro. Vista requires more RAM, more video RAM and faster hardware to get the same performance as XP.
I don't see any real reason for a business to invest in Vista at this time, except they want to be prepared for when Microsoft stops supporting XP. Perhaps I'll see something different when SP1 rolls out.
BTW: I tried to get more information from the link but didn't find anything about the CDW poll on the
"Vista for the Mass" linked page (<http://www.news.com/Vista-for-the-masses/2009-1016_3-6151565.html?tag=st.nl>).
I could go to Ubuntu or even get a Mac and have a better user experience, but then I wouldn't be able to complain about Vista, which has always been my favorite pastime. Plus, I use to Windows and all of it annoyances. Changing OSes would be a bit of a pain in the ass... I would have to get use to a new way doing things... which isn't something I want to do.
- Wow lots of MAC venga boys and Opensource trolls on here!
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by Martin_Australia
January 19, 2008 3:23 AM PST
- Wow, so much for open and fair minded people! Good to see all the MAC Venga Boys and Opensource trolls on here trying to write their own history which is not only irrelavent but imaginary!
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See all 33 Comments >>I know more CIO's and IT Managers deploying Vista and Office 2007 and removing Linux. As for Mac's - forget it.
Crawl back into your holes and keep playing in your imaginery world.
MSFT - USD$51B in annual sales and growth of 15% last financial year, hardly a company with products that nobody wants to buy! Read em and weep girls.....