Microsoft is all set to release Windows Vista OS for large businesses by the end of this month. But are business ready for a Vista upgrade?
Microsoft has closed the development stage of vista and are in the sales mode and will start selling Vista to companies that will volume contract licenses. Others will however wait till January 30.
According to a survey conducted 86% of the businesses said that they will surely upgrade to Vista but out of them only 20% said that they plan to do it next year.
Rob Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft said that most large companies will not even think of a Vista upgrade till January or February and then will spend more than a year to plan their roll outs.
Helm commented that Vista has all the features to be a hit but companies will need some time to adapt to Vista.
Research firm IDC said that Windows XP usage was at 10% after 12 months of its release and a 20% usage in the first 12 months is impossible for Vista.
Microsoft believes that the new features in the update mainly the improved security of Vista will boost its adoption.
A computer business owner Jeff Rosado said that people should wait for Service Pack 1 before upgrading as this issue will cater to all the problems and bugs if any in the OS. Moreover third-party support will also be made available after some time.
University of Wisconsin-River Falls IT worker Gary Knigge said that he expects the to start the first Vista installation in May or July next year but any technical problems will delay the process.
He also commented that completely wiping out Windows XP will tale another three years or so as people will have to upgrade their systems to cater the new OS.
After the testing process Microsoft said that machines with 512MB main memory will get less performance on Vista than they get on XP, so the better machine will be with more than 1GB of RAM.
Via: news.com
