90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista

A survey by King Research has found that Ninety percent of IT professionals have concerns using Vista, with compatibility, stability and cost being their key reasons. Interestingly, forty four percent of companies surveyed are considering switching to non-Windows operating systems, and nine percent of those have already started moving to their selected alternative. "The concerns about Vista specified by participants were overwhelmingly related to stability. Stability in general was frequently cited, as well as compatibility with the business software that would need to run on Vista," said Diane Hagglund of King Research.

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Hence the announcement....

[Joce640k]

Hence the announcement a few days ago that Windows 7 would be "available in 2008" - to stop people from jumping ship.

(Oh, sure, seven'll be ready in the next six months...!)

LOTFLMYO

[El Lobo]

haha, they are killing me...stop it....

44% where considering leaving Windows. One of the causes was " as well as compatibility with the business software that would need to run on Vista"... And they won't have compatibility issues in Linuzzz or Abble OSs... ?

OTOH, what stability problems they are talking about? I wonder how many of those people have really used Vista. Let me se... none of them?

I was talking to my uncle (who doesn't even know what byte is) and I mentioned Vista. The first thing he said: "Vista? is not' that the bad one? You can't even delete files with it!"... "have you used it?, I replied..."have you tried to delete a file on it?" "nah.. said he.."I am using W98 and won't upgrade to that crap"... oh well... That's the situation of the non-technical people these days. They just repeat things ad nauseum without even trying to think by theyselves. Thats understable, but when people on SLASHDOT (who are, I think, often technically oriented people, repeat every single lie without even caring to investigate the issues... well THAT is sad.