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Microsoft Missed Vista Opportunity By A Mile
Monday, August 7th, 2006
It really doesn’t matter whether Microsoft Corp. gets Windows Vista out in January 2007 or March 
or even June, an analyst with JupiterResearch said Tuesday, since most businesses aren’t champing at the bit to upgrade their OS.
About half of the 207 companies with more than 100 employees surveyed by JupiterResearch’s Joe Wilcox said that they would either pass on Vista entirely, or if they did upgrade, that they wouldn’t do so until at least 13 months after the new operating system was released. Amazingly, 13 percent of those polled had not even heard of Vista.
"Thirty-eight percent of businesses said they would be begin deployment in the first 12 months after release," said Wilcox. "At first glance, that seems like a pretty good number. But there’s another way to look at it."
Vista is, said Wilcox, the first Microsoft operating system upgrade in nearly 6 years, the longest gap between OS updates in the company’s history. "I would have expected much more pent-up demand," he said. "If there isn’t, why not?" InformationWeek | Vista Demand | Analyst: Microsoft Missed Vista Opportunity By A Mile | August 1, 2006
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