For Many Businesses, Vista Is Not a Priority
Microsoft must find a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows Vista.
Corporations were generally slow to deploy Windows XP, the desktop predecessor to Vista. Microsoft released XP in October 2001. But of 77 large companies surveyed by Forrester Research in July 2004, nearly half were still running Windows 2000 or other older versions on the majority of their PCs.
A similar survey of 56 users last July found that about 75 percent were running Windows XP on half or more of their PCs, Forrester said in a report this month.
Warning of "upgrade apathy," the firm said that only one-third of this year's respondents plan to start deploying Windows Vista when it becomes available in late 2006 or even when Microsoft releases its Service Pack 1 update. That's down from about 43 percent in the 2004 survey. In addition, 20 percent of the users surveyed this year said they don't plan to upgrade to Vista at all.
Source: NewsFactor Network.