Information Week did a survey: Over a third of the companies would be on VISTA within a year, but 30% had NO plans to EVER upgrade.
As an aside, I have seen average PC users with new VISTA PCs which have supremely disappointed the owners. The last was VISTA home edition on Dell 1501 Inspiron laptop yesterday, which is only a week old, used for email via Yahoo which is now almost unusable. It takes a Minute or more to load a web page or Explorer, and getting Explorer to navigate to network settings crashed every other time I tried. Every piece of malware must have attacked that machine in the last week. So much for advanced security for the average user.
I just can't understand the mayhem at Microsoft, as I really expected a more intuitive GUI, not less. I can't see MS as leading the charge for being the OS that runs high end software like SolidWorks into the future.
Am I MISSING something?
Thanks - Bo
One quarter of the 612 survey respondents said they were already using the new OS; 13% said they would do so in the next 12 months, while 27% said their companies would adopt Windows Vista more than one year from now.
But in what will surely be viewed as disappointing news at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, a full 30% of those surveyed said they had no plans to upgrade their systems to Windows Vista -- not ever.