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Half Of Businesses Still Use Windows 2000
bonch writes "An AssetMetrix study shows that half of business are still running Windows 2000 four years after the release of Windows XP, and that usage of Windows 2000 has only decreased by 4% since 2003. Microsoft will officially stop supporting Windows 2000 by the end of this month, offering one last update rollup later this year. Windows XP's slower adoption illustrates Microsoft's difficulty in competing with the popularity of its own software platform, and makes it more difficult for Microsoft to convince people to upgrade when Longhorn is released late next year."
The "corporate" version of XP doesn't have activation (you know, the version that many slashdotters pirate?), so WTH are you talking about?
-- "I never gave these stories much credence." - HAL 9000
Wow, that's a good story. Let me try, let me try: Linux gives you cancer. Yeah! I guess those people not wanting to get cancer can't understand why some customers seem to like getting cancer.
Even if that story is true (and maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but it sounds like typical FUD), who sends the CEO to a remote location during an "XP trial"? Sounds like a bad IT department as much as bad business practices by Microsoft.