Jul 26 2008
XP is still leading Vista: Forrester survey
Microsoft has launched Window Vista giving a sideline to the older Window XP, but it seems users are in love with the older one and are unable to accept the newer Window Vista.
According to a recent Forrester survey, less than 10 percent of the 2,300 companies surveyed use Vista. Forrester says 87.1 percent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP. The most disturbing point of the survey for Microsoft is that many of the pre-loaded Vista machines are being downgraded to XP in compliance with corporate licensing plans.
As told to a leading tech magazine, “it would be wise by Microsoft to consider following the lead of Microsoft’s important partner Intel and re-evaluating the case of Vista.”
The report contradicts Redmond giants claim that over 180 million copies of Vista have been sold. It seems that users are not interested in saying goodbye to one of the most popular operating systems. It is a bad news for Microsoft and seems very hard to digest but along with this the report also had a bit of good news for Microsoft. It found Vista usage among businesses going up by more than 40 percent since January and that the rate of adoption of Vista remains twice that of Mac OS X.
