The results of a new survey conducted by King Research could launch a thousand chairs into geosynchronous orbit above Redmond.

“Ninety percent of 961 IT professionals surveyed said they have concerns about migrating to Vista and more than half said they have no plans to deploy Vista,” Denise Dubie reports for Computerworld UK.

“The survey, echoing one from Forrester last week, shows most IT professionals are worried about Vista and that 44% have considered non-Windows operating systems, such as Linux and Macintosh, to avoid the Microsoft migration,” Dubie reports.

“Macintosh leads the pack of Vista alternatives, with support from 28% of respondents. About a quarter said they would opt for Red Hat Linux, with SUSE Linux and Ubuntu each garnering 18% of the vote. Another 9% cited other Linux operating systems and 4% were unsure,” Dubie reports.

“IT professionals also said that virtualisation is one of the technologies making a move away from Microsoft possible. About two-thirds reported that the use of virtualisation has made it easier to implement an alternative,” Dubie reports.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "RadDoc" for the heads up.]