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Corporate America Not Ready For Vista

Posted by kdawson on from the intel-giveth-and-microsoft-taketh-away dept.

thefickler writes to point out a TechBlorge article about a study indicating how few corporate computers now deployed are capable of running Windows Vista. The article says that the study, by Softchoice, will be released next week. The study found that 50% of the PCs inventoried (from a sample of 112,000 from 472 organizations) are below Vista's basic system requirements. Roughly half of those PCs will need to be replaced outright to run Vista. 94% of corporate PCs are not ready for Vista Premium Edition. The article notes that the need to upgrade hardware "could... mean that organizations will hold off upgrading to Windows Vista until their next hardware refresh," as some analysts have been saying for a while now.

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  1. Look, I'm a psychic guru! by Inf0phreak · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Surprised? I sure am not. I don't think a lot of corporate PCs out there have 1Gb memory -- let alone half a gigabyte. Heck, most computers out there probably struggle just to run Fisher Pri^W^W XP... At least Dell/Gateway and the memory makers is going to (eventually -- i.e. when MS stops support on 2k/XP) make a killing off of that OS.

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  2. Zune 2.0 by Brill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it always amazes me how Microsoft stays relevant just because it's Microsoft. they can throw money at any problem, Vista, the Zune, whatever. Even if the problem is lousy design and consumer consideration.

  3. Sigh...and yawn by gordgekko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, another day, another Slashdot "article" sniping at Microsoft and Vista. This is getting very tiresome. I'll bet there are more people running Vista already than Linux.

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