“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.)
Full article here.
“of those are Intel-based Macs.”
Why do they keep referring to macs that way? Apple doesn’t sell any other kind of Mac.
I hated “new” Coke. Tasted bitter to me. Nothing right with it.
Running Vista on a Dell at work (that’s the enterprise for the pretentious PC dorks without jobs) and HATING every minute of it!
Your potential. Our Blunder.™
@ Zune Tang “…that’s the enterprise for you pretentious MAC dorks without jobs”
Seems to me the dork here is you that doesn’t know that MAC refers to Media Access Control address or the unique number of your ethernet card and a Mac which is a computer made by Apple that is preferred by all who have actually tried it.
…we are about to move from Win 2000 to XP at work – some 7k machines (wow, quite a step: moving forward to something that is considered stone-age technology – but hey, if you come from the dinosaur-age…).
We’ll all be getting new (read: POS) Dells, but at least the IT-ers were smart enough to stay clear from Vista – and they have declared that they’re certainly not eying Vista for any foreseeable future.
Guess we’ll be sitting out the Vista era, and waiting and praying something better (read: usable) comes along?
(Macs apparently don’t even come into scope for reasons I don’t understand)
I don’t know whether MS will call these 7k machines as ‘Vista Sales with the “Windows Classic” option
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I’m currently working at a large Government Agency in the UK and we’re still using Windows 2000 sp4 with a custom Novell client. This place employs 15,000 people and untill this time last year we were still using Office 97.
They’re currently ‘testing’ vista, but I don’t think they want to upgrade to it as it would involve replacing all current hardware to run it.
I’ve nearly thrown my monitor across the office on several occasions in frustration. I guess thats what comes from an IT department which took 3 WEEKS to give me a login.
I’m kind of resigned about never being able to use a Mac at work. Would be nice though
Another difference is Coke was smart enough to realize disaster, and gave up on their dud.
It took them a while, though. They really fell into Pepsi’s trap and acted hysterically during the entire era.
Coke didn’t launch a $300 million marketing bid to “make” New Coke a success…
Another great point…
I heard that MS was introducing a new drink:
Midori and New Coke!
You don’t know the history of New Coke. I do.
“The difference is that MS doesn’t have a “Coke Classic” to fall back on.”
Unfortunately you’re wrong. For most enterprises XP is good enough. Most know that Office will not look any different or work any better when run under Vista. The fact that one in eleven enterprise PCS now run it show that despite all the negative press, it is being adopted. If you heard one in eleven enterprise systems were running Mac OS X you’d be creaming yourself with excitement.