February 3, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Yet more bad news for Vista I’m afraid. Research company, Forrester has found that windows latest OS is installed on fewer than 10 per cent of US and European corporate PC’s. However, the firm appears to be trying to spare Microsoft blushes, claiming that companies are slowly warming to Vista – I’m not so sure.
In an apparent bid to make the numbers not quite so bad for Microsoft, Forrester states that 31% of IT managers have started moving to vista. However, after more than two years since the release of the ill-fated operating system this statement seems unlikely to be all it seems. It could just as easily mean that IT managers have started reading Vista literature as it could that they’ve actually planned a Vista roll-out. When you consider that by all accounts we’re not even a year away from Windows 7 and in the depths of a global recession it seems strange that IT managers would take such a risk.
The report is trying very hard to paint a positive picture for Microsoft but the central facts are that the uptake of Vista by the corporate world is pathetic and there is no sign of that changing significantly. Roll on Windows 7.
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