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XP and Vista: A Look at the Numbers
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 20:03, 10th May 2008 GMT
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Popular opinion is that Microsofts Windows Vista operating system is a dud, a view fueled in part by a low adoption rate among businesses. But a look back at history shows why it may be premature to write Vista off.
By the end of 2007, businesses computers running Vista accounted for just 3% of the nearly 1 billion computers in use worldwide, according to the research company Gartner. Sounds dismal, but thats the same percentage that ran the business version of Microsofts previous OS, XP, in 2002, the first year after its release. (Out of 582 million total computers.) By the end of 2003, business computers running XP accounted for 10% of the total. Gartner projects that by the end of this year, business computers running Vista will make up 13% of all computers.
That puts Vista ahead of its predecessors pace, and bolsters Microsofts argument that Vista adoption is inline with the companys expectations. The numbers are the numbers, Gartners George Shiffler tells the Business Technology Blog. I cant refute them. But he adds that they dont tell the whole story. Vista is certainly facing headwinds, he says.
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