Small Businesses are the fastest to adopt Vista
A new article published by InfoWorld reports that half of businesses are in some phase of upgrading to Windows Vista of which 53% are small businesses. Other interesting tidbits include:
- Number of businesses evaluating Vista increased from 29% in Feb 2007 to 48% in November 2007
- Number of businesses implementing or using Vista went from 12% in Feb 2007 to 35% in November 2007
This is interesting timing given the Vista poll I put out on my blog the other week (thanks to the 80 of you that responded).
- 70% of you are using Vista in your businesses
- 15% are waiting for Service Pack 1
- 8% are considering moving to another operating system
- 4% are staying with Windows XP
- 4% downgraded their new Vista PC to Windows XP
It's good to see the majority of my readers on Vista :-) but I would expect that anyway. I'm more interested in hearing from those of you that said you were either waiting for Service Pack 1, were considering moving OS or were staying with XP. Let me know your motivation for those choices by leaving a comment on this post or getting in touch via email: james@microsoft.com.
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
http://blogs.technet.com/james/archive/2008/01/16/small-businesses-are-the-fastest-to-adopt-vista.aspxAnonymous
January 01, 2003
Interesting point at blogs.technet.comAnonymous
January 01, 2003
http://blogs.technet.com/james/archive/2008/01/16/small-businesses-are-the-fastest-to-adopt-vista.aspxAnonymous
January 01, 2003
I'm loving my Polls at the moment so who knows eh?! What do you mean by end user vs VAR?Anonymous
January 16, 2008
Hi James, Keen to know how many of those using Vista (any version) are doing so because they used their MAPs license key(s) to do so. Given that a large majority of your readers are probably MS Partners, I would be interested to know how the Vista install base resides in the end-user camp compared to VARs. I suppose that's for another poll! SAnonymous
January 16, 2008
End User as in customer and VAR as in Value Adding ResellerAnonymous
January 16, 2008
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April 04, 2008
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