Thursday, 2 August 2007

Fewer Businesses Opting For Microsoft Vista

According to a new survey today fewer businesses will move to Microsoft Vista. The survey said businesses will prefer to stick older versions of Microsoft operating software or will shift to Linux or Mac OS X.

According to a new survey today fewer businesses will move to Microsoft Vista than seven months ago. The survey by PatchLink Corp. said businesses will prefer to stick older versions of Microsoft operating software or will shift to Linux or Mac OS X.

In a poll of more than 250 of its clients, PatchLink noted that only 2 per cent said they are already running Vista, while another 9 per cent said they planned to roll out Vista in the next three months. A majority of those surveyed, 87 per cent said they would stay with their existing Windows version.

The new figures are almost opposite of what the research agency said in December 2006, few days before Microsoft launched Vista. At the time, 43 per cent said they had plans to move to Vista, while just 53 per cent planned to keep what Windows they had.

Last year, PatchLink, in its survey said, 28 per cent of those surveyed said would deploy Vista within the first year of its release. But by the results of the latest survey, less than half as many about 11 per cent will have opted for the next-generation operating system by Nov. 1.