A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista

oDDmON oUT writes "An article on the Computerworld site quotes polling results from a potentially-divisive PatchLink survey. The poll shows that the majority of enterprise customers feel there are no compelling security enhancements in Windows Vista, that they have no plans to migrate to it in the near term and that many will 'either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X'. A majority, 87%, said they would stay with their existing version of Windows. This comes on the heels of a dissenting view of Vista's track record in the area of security at the six month mark, which sparked a heated discussion on numerous forums."

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Re:Won't move *now*

[The Cisco Kid]

I'm an advocate of Free Software and don't use anything from Microsoft, and I absolutely LOVE Vista. Why shouldnt I? More headaches for MS users, more cost, more lock-in, more DRM, less control of your computer, more new 'features' for the trojan and virus writers to play with, without any real benefits other than some new gee-whix eyecandy - more evidence of exactly why MS software is absolute shit.

So the Web is one Big Negative Hole?

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the majority of Vista users without problems are not out on the messages boards singing its praises, they (like me) are simply using their computer and find it more pleasent than XP.

What, all seven of them?

By your reasoning, the web should be filled with people complaining about gnu/linux, Apple and every OS. That's clearly not the case, as not even M$'s mighty astroturf engine can fill the web. People who use gnu/linux, OSX and other alternatives mostly love it. People who make the Vista mistake tend to hate it and there's lots of "give me back my XP" business going on in local shops.

People know about Vista but don't want it. M$ has done a good job telling everyone about Vista. 87% of home users know about it and 100% of business IT people know, but only 12% of either group wants it. The rejection is universal.

[some] (like me) are simply using their computer and find it more pleasent than XP. ... I'm not posting to say you should upgrade or that I think you need Vista right now..

I'm happy Vista does what you want, but you have to realize that when the best that said is "wait" people are not going to want it. People who want a real upgrade and vendors who want to survive are going to look to gnu/linux, OSX or any other place that works. That goes double when there are people like me out there who will tell you that it does not take much to do better than XP's expensive, horribly annoying and unstable, single screen UI. When you throw in all the programs and hardware that won't work on Vista and that it's easier to move to gnu/linux, Vista's dead in the water.

Unconditional Surrender Required.

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TheSHAD0W attempts self amusement:

Students are going to have to learn how to use Vista, so might as well dump 'em in at the deep end...

I don't think so. I think it's more like this:

M$ is going to have to learn how to use free software, so might as well dump 'em in at the deep end...

Only unconditional GPL of all of their code will remove them from further suspicion.

Ha!

[thanksforthecrabs]

Turn to Linux or Mac OS X in the workplace? Yeah, right. 99.9% will stick with XP if they are not moving to Vista. Desktop Linux is a pipe dream.