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."

Comments

We're one of them...

[NIN1385]

I have instructed my boss to not purchase any new computer with Vista on it for at least a year or two. Just some of the horror stories I have read about all the incompatibility and the problems with just using the interface was enough. I did however have an coworker who received a new laptop with Vista on it and we have had nothing but problems with it. Our printers wouldn't install and I cannot believe how overly complicated they made it to find anything in the operating system.

It's unbelievable what they have compromised just so they can have flashy graphics and smooth looking buttons. It all boils down to one thing in the end however, I just don't see any benefit to upgrading any time soon so therefore there's no reason to. We will continue to buy our new PCs from Dell with Windows XP on them until they either quit offering it or we have a piece of equipment that requires it.

Sticking with windows

[Mike1024]

many will 'either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X' Well, lets see what the actual numbers are (quoting the article):

2% said they are already running Vista
9% said they planned to roll out Vista in the next three months.
87%, said they would stay with their existing version(s) of Windows.
8% of those polled acknowledged Linux plans and
4% said they would deploy Mac OS X.

I would say "many will stick with the Windows they have", certainly, but I'm not sure I would call 8% or 4% 'many'. And somehow I suspect 'linux plans' might not mean complete replacement of Windows on the desktop.

Just my $0.02

Re:MS made big mistake with XP

[bconway]

Windows 2000 will receive security support until 2010.

Re:Slashdot... oh slashdot...

[Spikeles]

Hmm. depends. From what i understand there are a few ways of accessing sound in Windows. Through the old legacy win32 interface, direct to hardware driver access(EAX etc) and DirectSound. Each of those access the card in their own way separately of each other and don't know about each other's volume. Hence the reason Vista uses a software stack. All those streams are now sent through a single software stack and each can be controlled and modified( eg, volumne, special effects, pitch, tone, etc) by a single layer.

An example is World of Warcraft starts using DirectSound to pump out sound at 75%. Then your email application pops up and tells Windows, hey i want you to turn the sound to 100% so i can play a "you've got mail sound". Neither of these applications know about each other, and they both want access to the same card. In XP, there is going to be conflicts, the email application might turn your sound up, but forget to turn it down causing WoW to get really loud. WoW is still at 75% but because your email application told the card to go higher, well, it gets noisy.

In Vista, you get two streams heading into a single control layer which can adjust the volume on each input stream seperately before merging into a single stream to the card.

As you mentioned it would require special hardware support and then Windows would have to support it.