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Friday 16 November 2007, 1:53 PM
Forrester notes the Vistification problem
This new Forrester report - on Vista adoption - is going to be one of those publications which gets cited, quoted and spun till no-one's quite sure what it is about.
The report title How Windows Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System, doesn't sound like a big vote of confidence for Linux, but that's one strand of the way it's been reported.
You need a Forrester subscription to read the report, but the news point seems to be that Vista adoption in the enterprise is pathetic, at two percent, while "84 percent of PCs in North American and European enterprises [run] Windows XP and just 11 percent [run] Windows 2000", according to the author Benjamin Gray, who had a survey done of 600 enterprises.
In fact Europe's Vista adoption in the enterprise is even less - more or less zero, while the US rate is around three percent, according to Matt Broersma's report at Techworld.
"Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an enterprise-class offering," says Gray. Which is a fair commendation.
But that's faint praise compared to this line from the report: "Vista's biggest competition is not Apple or Novell or Red Hat, it is Microsoft itself with XP."
PreviousComments on this post
Interesting statistics.
I'll comment first hand on my workplace related XP exprience, since my desktop PC as be upgraded to XP (from NT) today. With that sort of progress this PC will be on Vista sometime in 2012
Learning from the past, unless you want/need to be cutting edge (well a little old, going slightly blunt - Vista) in terms of windows software, aren't most people going to hold off on Vista until Service Pack 1 arrives at least?
