Business are deferring upgrades toMicrosoft
Vistain favour of the next release of the
Windows operating system, according to Forrester
research.
A quarter of the 2,300 businesses surveyed said they planned to
upgrade to Vista this year. But Forrester said they might continue
to use XP and wait for the release of Windows 7, the successor to
Vista, which is scheduled for the second half of 2009.
Only 6.3% of
companies were using Vista at the end of 2007. Those who had
migrated to Vista were previously on Windows 2000, rather than XP,
which the majority of users (89%) still run.
"Given the slow start, little gain in productivity, and the
timetabled release of Windows 7 in the second half of 2009,
businesses may decide to pull back roll-outs or
skip the version altogether, pushing Vista the way of Windows
Millennium," said Thomas Mendel, research director at
Forrester.
Additional research by Forrester predicted that by the end of
2008, 32% of business will have started deploying Vista another 17%
plan to deploy the OS in 2009 or beyond.
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