April 15, 2009 by Matt Thomas
If I was working for the Microsoft PR department right now, I’d probably be holding my head in my hands and wondering what I have to do to repair the damage done by Windows Vista. This despair would have been brought on by recent reports that, despite the fact that Windows Beta testers have been hugely positive about Windows 7 and that many of them are now running the beta version as their main browser, most companies still do not plan to upgrade immediately to Windows 7 when it becomes available.
California based, Dimensional Research, surveyed 1,100 IT workers across the world – a whopping 83 percent said that their departments had no plans to upgrade to Windows 7 immediately.
Now, in part, this could be put down to the economy, though not completely. If Vista adoption statistics are to be believed, many of these companies would never have actually upgraded from XP to Vista in the first place or, even worse, have upgraded and then downgraded again after experiencing problems.This means that a large number of companies will actually be using an operating system that is now two versions old. Whichever way you look at it that’s a fairly clear indication of just how far confidence in new Windows products has fallen.
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