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Vista continues to do poorly in business adoption rates
For all of Microsoft's pushing of Vista, including boasts of incredible sales, reception of it has remained poor. Businesses around the world have been unwilling to upgrade, and after the initial waves the adoption rate for it has remained low. In the enterprise, despite being two years from launch, Vista is still found on less than 10% of business computers. That indicates that in the past 7 months, virtually nothing has changed.
This may play into Microsoft's favor, as they prepare to roll out Windows 7 at the end of this year or early 2010. Even if Vista's numbers continue to climb very slowly, it won't be long before a third option for businesses is available. It might also be encouragement for Microsoft to release Windows 7 ahead of schedule, though that is nothing more than speculation at this point. Of course, a rep from Microsoft claims that migrations to Vista are still in process, so before Windows 7 comes out we might actually see it break a 10% share.
The further we get from the Vista launch and closer to a Windows 7 launch, the more it seems that Vista may be skipped over by many. Regardless of any technological advantages it may have, the business world is a very important market for Microsoft, and Vista is doing poorly there.
This may play into Microsoft's favor, as they prepare to roll out Windows 7 at the end of this year or early 2010. Even if Vista's numbers continue to climb very slowly, it won't be long before a third option for businesses is available. It might also be encouragement for Microsoft to release Windows 7 ahead of schedule, though that is nothing more than speculation at this point. Of course, a rep from Microsoft claims that migrations to Vista are still in process, so before Windows 7 comes out we might actually see it break a 10% share.
The further we get from the Vista launch and closer to a Windows 7 launch, the more it seems that Vista may be skipped over by many. Regardless of any technological advantages it may have, the business world is a very important market for Microsoft, and Vista is doing poorly there.
User Comments (21)
Post a comment| MichaelLS on February 2, 2009 6:36 PM | Very Weak 'Speculation' and Very 'Optimistic' is a bit of an
extreme understatement don't you think? Obviously you
haven't tried to use this product out side of the home!
What a mess! No reasonable Enterprise / Admin's would go
anywhere near this disaster. FACT! The product was even banned inside Intel. Sad! What has become of the great Micro$oft? Who wants to pay hard earned cash for a chance to 'adopt' / sign on to Alpha test Windows 7 ??? Anyone wish to risk their Enterprise on this? At this time in the economy? Is not Windows 7 based on the Vista platform. Let me see if I understand this? The base product has failed for the most part, so lets make it the underpinnings of our next Alpha release. Hmmmm! How to kill a company!!! Sigh! No wonder Apple is posting profits and Micro$oft is laying off employees! It's not hard to figure this one out!!!
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| Julio on February 2, 2009 7:45 PM | Hello, apple fan boy.
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| tengeta on February 2, 2009 8:52 PM | My company uses Vista, guess what we have more uptime than
ever. Its a few steps short of Linux, but on a 10 story staircase. Actually use before you verbally abuse.
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| MichaelLS on February 2, 2009 9:00 PM | Why hello Stockholm Syndrome WhooLeeOoo! - have you tried
Linux? How about Unix? And yes, OS-X works very well
also! I think its very interesting that you poor fellows always revert to acting so childish. Its very sad to see the once very well respected and established Micro$oft come crashing down. I am sure that for you name calling Windows OS Fan Boys / Cultists, its got to be painful! Why? Technology moves on. This old Head for Tail OS design is terribly flawed. Its time for Micro$oft to move on! So.. why doesn't Micro$oft do just that! They claim to have the resources, the money, so lets see something new and technologically advanced. Not another Band Aid tacked onto the older OS. The time has come to stop copying tiny little Apple and be innovative. Be a leader! Not a follower! There, There!
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| Emin3nce on February 2, 2009 9:03 PM | I have tried love, and i'm sorry but in the hundreds of
business environments i have helped deploy, Vista has helped
in none. And i did give it a chance! It's just not 'that' great. Some compatability issues tend to top off 'not that great' to 'not worth the upgrade'. However, so far windows 7 looks to work fine in many of the testing instances i've run... albeit that damn taskbar is a little bit of a joke. Then again, who's to say that the poor release of vista wasn't a long-term marketing strategy to hype windows 7? much the same as ME...
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| MichaelLS on February 2, 2009 9:16 PM | Oh surely not, I find it very hard to believe Micro$oft
would deliberately frustrate thousands upon thousands just
to build up to a new release. No way! Sounds more like very poor management and terrible in house testing of the product they hoped would lead the industry again. As for your comment about the task bar in 7, right on. Still, why all the USB Interface issues. Sounds issues. Graphical interface issues. Again! Not well thought out nor properly tested. Then look deep inside. Hmmm! Very familiar! I've seen this somewhere recently! Oh, yeah - in Vista! Hopefully... things will drastically improve.. and very soon!
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| DarkCobra on February 2, 2009 9:34 PM | Well with Windows 7 coming the future sales of Vista will
definitely dwindle. I do agree that Windows 7 will
probably be "Vista finally done right" . . . or certainly
better. You know the world is big enough for more than a
single operating system, in fact is good that we have more
than one. People should chose the platform they prefer, be
it Windows, Apple, Linux or whatever. All this acrimony,
name calling and put downs of other systems is
counter-productive to us all. All the systems have their
positives and their issues.
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| MichaelLS on February 2, 2009 9:46 PM | Absolutely - We / I use all 5 major OS's and frankly,
Micro$oft is really letting a lot of people down. Terribly!
I would never deploy 2003 Server again. Vista will not
happen on my watch. The frustrations are simply way over
the limit. For Windows platform requirements - frankly - XP
Pro SP3 is doing just fine. Laugh at all the Apple Cultists
if you like, the virtual Windows platforms deployed on Macs
are really nice and very functional. Nice to backup and
restore the OS in seconds. Pretty hard to beat. For me
personally - Windows never ran so well than as it does in
VMware. Try it out! Nice to have all major OS's running on
the same hardware virtually trouble free. Makes my day a
joy!
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| tengeta on February 2, 2009 9:59 PM | Look, my argument for Vista is honestly pending hardware
requirements. We overspent for our hardware a long time ago
though, and all of it can run it effortlessly. Obviously you
wouldn't put Leopard Server on an older machine because of
what, I dunno, maybe THEIR hardware requirements? At the end
of the day, the only OS'es that survive the resource war are
Linux and BSD, but if your that picky about resources I bet
you aren't here posting with your time.
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| aolish on February 2, 2009 10:09 PM | why is everyone surprised that Vista isnt being adopted by
business. Are there any compelling reasons why a business
should drop xp over vista? What are the benefits? There is
none. In addition, businesses would have to go through all
the testing and compatibility issues just to make vista
work. In the end they get a prettier UI with better
searching? No doubt the majority of business is waiting for
Win7. It'd be pointless now to get Vista since 7 is already
coming out.
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| brownpaper on February 2, 2009 10:22 PM | MichaelLS, you are a noob. Yes, Vista has not been adopted
by businesses. But tell me: if OSX is so great, then why is
OSX not even considered by businesses? I know, it is because Apple is unfriendly towards businesses and is a severe proprietary platform to deal with. They charge outrageous prices for hardware and have poor business support. Linux will be adopted by businesses before OSX. Apple is a horrible company to conduct business with. MichaelLS, do not smear your mascara, wipe the lint off of your black turtleneck, and do not forget your man-purse as you leave the Starbucks with your MacBook Air.
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| Julio on February 3, 2009 12:48 AM | Originally posted by aolish: why is
everyone surprised that Vista isnt being adopted by
business. Are there any compelling reasons why a business
should drop xp over vista? I didn't elaborate on my
previous one liner, but this sums it up nicely. Adopting
Vista on general purpose business machines would be a
terrible decision, but that's not nearly an excuse to say
Microsoft should do more like Apple who are even more
consumer oriented.
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| MichaelLS on February 3, 2009 1:04 AM | Tengeta: Actually, unlike Vista - Leopard runs very well on
a lot of older platforms. Not true! And - you do know that
Leopard / OS-X is built on BSD - right? That's why Apple's
platforms are so rock solid - today. Wasn't always that
way! There is much to be said about the architecture of the individual OS. That proves out in the end. Vista is simply not there as a Head for Tail design. Never will be in my years of experience. Simply too vulnerable and not efficient use of available resources. Also - if you want to see Vista shine - load it on a Leopard Mac in a virtual platform. Puts the upgraded hardware most need to run Vista to shame. Really sad! AOLish: The search engine is very much the same. Wax and Polish don't make the grade. Business and Enterprise were really hoping for better performance with a much more stable and secure platform with much improved graphics for todays demanding apps - as was promised! Didn't happen did it!! Recycled Paper: Noob - as in Newbie? Oh please! After 35 years in this industry I think not. OS-X is performance grade in the music industry / in the printing industry / in almost all scientific communities. FACT! Vista - went home infected to play FPS games. Show me a magazine that was not laid out on a Mac? Do you realize how many commercials you watch that are made on Macs? It is all terribly embarrassing for Micro$oft. Yes, Linux and Unix rule the server industry. Although - its pretty scary to see the little Apple Xserve stomp them on a regular basis. That has to really got to hurt Micro$oft also. Support is great there too! Certainly maintenance is much less. Not true. We always do much better with Liberal-ville Al-Gored to death Apple than we do with the India based Micro$oft support centers. What a waste of time that is!! HP and Dell support - a completely lost and hopeless cause! Outrageous prices? What are we talking about here? - Enterprise - or your little under $500.00 3/4 empty tower from HP / Dell? You paid how much for your empty $100.00 manufacturing cost PeeCee. At least the Apple gear has some very significant hardware design behind them. Very Solidly Built little boxes. I'll tell you what Recycled Paper - the only part that I really miss is the building of our own systems. That's where the Linux boxes really shine for me. I love designing and building the hardware. Hard to do in the tight little Apple world. And - Recycled Paper - careful - your hate speech is going very much against the grain of your newly elected president. You'll soon be arrested for that kind of talk if he gets his way in the little white house. Frankly, I despise the wicked and debauched behavior of you emotionally unstable San Francisco types. You can have your dirty little lives. But, to grant you people special rights as some sort of a special mistreated minority - that's going way beyond the limits for most all of us. White shirt and tie for me little man! Hee, hee! Steven Sick Jobs can keep his turtle neckie. And his outrageous income and his shiny new Gulfstream 550. How sick is that? Then, there is Billy Bob Gates in his Custom Boeing 757. Sigh! Why? I still don't get the Micro$oft commercials? How did that help their failed label name and the companies bottom line? Well, the servers are calling me... Enjoy fellows!
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| gobbybobby on February 3, 2009 8:01 AM | Well XP seems to have been around for ages. How long was
vista in development. XP is still the OS of choice for many
people because of its fast boot times and software and pc
games are stil work with it. MS try to push us by releasing
games that will only work on vista like HALO 2 PC. But you
can get around that with a 3rd party patch or just download
a torrented version. I am still on XP but may go to Vista simply because if you get a new copy thay upgrade you to 7 free. is that there silent way of admitting vista is crap while getting people to buy it and then upgrade to 7 and release figures that suggest loads of people bought it in the first week??!!
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| yukka on February 3, 2009 9:22 AM | I read MichaelLS's comments and all I see is "wah wah wah
wah wah..". boring Vista has been adopted in the University I work in and when the hardware is capable of running it, its a nice environment. easy to support and maintain, fewer and fewer hardware issues. Would i recommend it to any business? Well, its the old question as XP was so good. But Vista is more secure because of UAC and the secure desktop. Most companies will wait for Windows 7 before they migrate but that makes sense. they might even wait as long as the first service pack. I dont see them jumping to apple since the hardware costs a bomb and i dont see the death of microsoft, how ever many words you write about it. 35 years in the industry. lol
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| MichaelLS on February 3, 2009 10:15 AM | Still - GobbyBobby - why would you buy into the untested and
unproven territory of Seven built on Vista? Why invite
further trouble? Give them some real time to settle all
this out. A year at least! Providing they have that time
themselves. Things are looking pretty bleak in Redmond this
morning. There will be a lot more people laid off at
Micro$oft if this does not turn around, and real soon for
them. Yes! Great sales dumping tactic by Micro$oft, 'lets give'm a good deal' in order to dump the broken product. Please don't install it. Just use it to upgrade. Save yourself the frustration and pain. Anyone else see the drug user analogy with Micro$oft. Get them hooked. Then charge them big money to feed their addictions? Give them the product for free - then reel them in when they need it the most. Sad! You Micro$oft Cultists can say what you will - Apple's package deals are actually a real cost savings in the office / enterprise today. Requires a lot less support too! Happy end users are a real blessing in the office environment today. Certainly better than trying to teach these poor people how to use Word or Excel today. What a nightmare. And at what enormous cost? You paid how much for those multiple seats for Office 2007? Uuuugh! Come on Micro$oft! Way past time to get it together! Less Greed! More hard work! Stop copying everyone else's product! Get out there and lead for a change!!!!
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| MichaelLS on February 3, 2009 10:30 AM | Yukka??? "When the hardware is capable?" And how much does that cost the University? XP works today! [ With a really good firewall... and virus scanner.. and Spyware tools... and even more money for software seats... etc. ] No more hardware expense required!!! Updated graphics cards cost big money Yukk Yukk! That's the whole point! Enterprise solutions that don't break the budget! "But Vista is more secure because of UAC and the secure desktop." You are kidding right? Oh please! "Most companies will wait for Windows 7 before they migrate but that makes sense." Yes, but bite me on the Enterprise hand once and I'll wait a very long time before investing in hardware and resources in you again. Enterprise really likes off the shelf - it works - it requires less support- solutions. And right now! Think about this people! Micro$oft really needs to re-think what they are doing - and yesterday! Is that not what Justin was really trying to point out!!! Sure wish someone would produce a nice affordable Linux Desktop solution. It's just not there!
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| eddie_42 on February 3, 2009 11:08 AM | MichaelLS 'My system works just fine, why is everyone complaining'. I love that fanboy mentality, both apple and windows users. Fanboy stories aside, i have read countless articles about the woes of vista, from people who know what they are talking about. Michael for example here, uses 5 different platforms (linux, OSX, XP, Vista are what I've gathered). And he uses it for more then surfing facebook and updating his blog. For 80% plus of the general public, Vista is just fine. Getting a new Dell with it preloaded, taking it out of the box, plugging in the monitor, and playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure. The workplace is a whole different animal. Purchasing Vista may mean buy 5000 licenses or more. Look at Boeing, GE, Verizon etc...that's a lot of updates. And quite possible that you would also need to upgrade at least half the computer terminals. Now throw onto the top of that cost, that some glitch or driver instability makes talking between LA and Miami intermittent at best. Now you're loosing productivity, loosing revenue. If those problems persist for months, you got a giant lose on your hands. Vista simply hasn't proven to be worth the time and effort for major upgrades like these.
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| MichaelLS on February 3, 2009 11:18 AM | eddie_42 [ GRIN ] Oh, please don't ask about VPN on Vista
- please - oh, too painful to talk about. Way too much time
and money lost! Oh the shame of it all. And for the
record... Linux it just works! Little bitty byte out of the
Apple - it just always works! Sun - it just works - even
better. XP - well - sometimes... Sigh! You hit it on head eddie_42! Thanks!
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| yukka on February 3, 2009 12:47 PM | Originally posted by MichaelLS: "When the
hardware is capable?" And how much does that cost the
University? XP works today! [ With a really good
firewall... and virus scanner.. and Spyware tools... and
even more money for software seats... etc. ] No more
hardware expense required!!! Updated graphics cards cost
big money Yukk Yukk! That's the whole point! Enterprise
solutions that don't break the budget! Since when
does Intel on board q35 and q45 graphics cost lots of money?
Runs aero fine. Updated graphics cards - what would you
need those for in the workplace? CAD cards are going to
cost more with any operating system so thats just rubbish.
Core 2 Duo, 2 gig of ram, sata drives, intel mobo with
integrated graphics. If you are running anything slower in
your enterprise you probably waste most of your support time
replacing ide drives and cpu fans and explaining to users
why their PCs make so much bloody
noise."But Vista is more secure because of
UAC and the secure desktop." You are kidding right? Oh
please! Its more secure than XP which doesnt have it.
Whats your point? Combine it with the improved group
policy options and its even better."Most
companies will wait for Windows 7 before they migrate but
that makes sense." Yes, but bite me on the Enterprise hand
once and I'll wait a very long time before investing in
hardware and resources in you again. Enterprise really
likes off the shelf - it works - it requires less support-
solutions. And right now! Last time I checked Vista
does work off the shelf. Its pointless trying to suggest it
did at release but you arent suggesting I am trying to do
that?Think about this people! Micro$oft
really needs to re-think what they are doing - and
yesterday! Is that not what Justin was really trying to
point out!!!
Sure wish someone would produce a nice affordable Linux Desktop solution. It's just not there!
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| MichaelLS on February 3, 2009 1:59 PM | "Since when does Intel on board q35 and q45 graphics cost
lots of money? Runs aero fine" Yes, that's true - when your established enterprise has those chipsets! Otherwise? Most have found that the attempt to run Vista on anything otherwise is terribly compromised. So... its lay down the cash.. or hang tight. What we now have is working. Why break it? High Demand Graphics? Why SLI when you can just Mac? [ Can you hear him scream? Watch him squirm! Ah the frustrated fan boys! ] Never replace fans - vacuum and clean regularly - oh yeah! A clean office cubical really helps! And get it off the floor big guy! Hard Drives? Regular maintenance - replacement before failure - Seagate? Sigh! UAC - sure if you don't mind having very frustrated End Users! Right? Questions?Questions? Questions? Oh, what to do? What to do? Better yet - Don't!!! Nah - XP PRO SP3 w/Zone Alarm Suite and a good Admin Staff - let them eat cake comrade! Piece of pie!
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