“Fewer than one in 11 of the PCs being used in large or very large enterprises runs Windows Vista, according to survey results released Wednesday by Forrester Research Inc.,” Eric Lai reports for Computerworld.
“Of the 50,000 enterprise users surveyed by the Cambridge, Mass., analyst firm, 87.1% were still running Windows XP at the end of June, compared to 8.8% for Vista. According to author Thomas Mendel, that implies that the majority of PCs upgraded to Vista were those running older versions of Windows, such as Windows 2000 or 98,” Lai reports.
“‘Vista is ‘new Coke,” Mendel wrote, comparing Microsoft’s flagship operating system to the ill-fated soft drink. Enterprises still on the fence about Vista would be wise, he said, to ‘consider following the lead of Microsoft’s important partner Intel and re-evaluating the case of Vista,'” Lai reports.
Lai reports, “Mendel’s comments undercut the momentum for Vista claimed by Microsoft, which says it has sold 180 million licenses for its 18-month-old operating system to PC makers and end users.”
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft says a lot of things; doesn’t mean what they say is true: HP: Microsoft counting XP-loaded PCs as ‘Vista’ sales – July 30, 2008
Lai continues, “The share of Macs [in the enterprise] grew to 4.5% in June from 3.7% in January 2008 [a 22% increase]; 80% of those are Intel-based Macs.”
MacDailyNews Take: How’d ya like them Apples, Pee-wee?
Linux’s share of desktops, meanwhile, fell significantly, according to Forrester, to 0.5% in June from 1.8% in January.”
MacDailyNews Take: No surprise there; Linux on the desktop has always been a pipe dream. (Linux in the server room is a totally different story.)
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Nice analogy in the article.
The difference is that MS doesn’t have a “Coke Classic” to fall back on. XP is outdated, old technology that’s getting way long in the tooth.
So, at 4.5%, Macs have more than half the 8.8% share of Vista? Sounds hopeful to me.
I guess no Mac news means Microsoft bad news in this site
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That’s an idea for Microsoft. Repackage Windows XP and call it Windows Classic.
Honestly, it scares me. It scares me because the media pretty much assassinated VISTA. Yeah, it’s got problems, but yeesh. You’d think people’s eyes fell out of bloody sockets after using it or something.
It scares me because sooner or later the media is going to turn on Apple. They did it once, they’ll do it again and when they do this, it isn’t about what’s right or wrong or factual reporting, it’s about going with the flow, getting eyeballs to the websites, selling magazines, and creating news when there is none.
The media has a herd mentality. You just watch them.
Although, ken1w might be on to something…
Windows Classic.
I could see that.
Thelonious: Wasn’t aware that main stream news media was on Apple’s side now.
Are you a well rounded woman who doesn’t want to admit having a little extra cushin for the pushin??
Those 8.8% are most likely using Vista b/c their IT department either doesn’t know better or is insistent Microsoft “technology” is superior to that of Apple (which would be “doesn’t know better”)
Those using the 4.5% are not being blindly led by the blind and are making informed choices as to which operating system truly does the best job at the tasks they need them for.
It’s human nature to “follow the crowd” if they don’t know otherwise, those in the know create their own crowd, and our crowd is growing due to informed choices, not b/c we believe the establishment is superior.
that eighth post was supposed to be “@Majikthize” . . . not by Majikthize . . .
Wait a minute… I thought that Microsoft was so good at courting Enterprise™? What in the heck is the problem here?!
“Linux on the desktop has always been a pipe dream.”
Thanks, Stallman!!!
I liked “new” Coke. Tasted fine to me. Nothing wrong with it.
Running Vista on a Dell at work (that’s the enterprise for you pretentious MAC dorks without jobs) and loving every minute of it!
Your potential. Our passion.™
Oh yea, VISTA IS JUST FINE!!!
AS LONG AS YOU KEEP IT IN THE BOX IT CAME FROM!!!
LOL!!
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MDN Word “want” I want VISTA like a new hole in my head and a larger iPhone with COPY AND PASTE!!
As the saying goes, “Laugh, laugh and laugh some more!”
Microsoft’s slow obliteration is a spectacle to behold.
Actually… New Coke was preferred by most people in blind taste tests. It was just a public relations nightmare and the American reluctance to hold onto something they consider a historic icon.
By saying Vista is like New Coke is saying that “Vista is actually better, it’s just that people are buying into hype and emotion and don’t want to like it.”
“Honestly, it scares me. It scares me because the media pretty much assassinated VISTA. Yeah, it’s got problems, but yeesh. You’d think people’s eyes fell out of bloody sockets after using it or something.
It scares me because sooner or later the media is going to turn on Apple.”
no.
windows has always sucked. this isn’t ‘turning on’, this is bloody well finally ‘waking up’!
I remember new coke. i thought it tasted better than classic. oh well
Oaky, it’s time to bring up an old favorite I read once:
If you play the Vista Install disc backward, it plays satanic music. What’s worse is that if you play it forward, it installs Vista.:-0
Linux lost more share than OS X gained. It looks like total non-Windows share is shrinking (very slightly).
Good, now MS knows how Apple feels. How many Apples are used in business, fark all.
The difference is that MS doesn’t have a “Coke Classic” to fall back on.
Another difference is Coke was smart enough to realize disaster, and gave up on their dud.
Coke didn’t launch a $300 million marketing bid to “make” New Coke a success…
As a Pepsi drinker let me say this about New Coke. It was a blatant copy of Pepsi, just like Vista copied OS X aqua.
The trouble with Vista is they didn’t copy OS X’s unix underpinnings. The security protocols baked into Vista and the extra horsepower needed to drive the visuals meant new hardware and new peripherals with broken software and obsolete older peripherals.
In other words no backward compatibility.
A revamped, start over from scratch Windows OS would have suffered the same fate without XP in a virtual machine included in the deal.
WINDOWS CLASSIC
coming soon!!!!!!!
yahooooooooooo
My company’s 300 POS Dells are running XP and there are no plans to go with Vista.
@SirROM
Either way, you get something satanic.