Corporate America Not Ready For Vista

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.

Re:Not ready for IE7 either

[Marrshu]

Nonsense! They must push new DRM measures to prevent corporate workers from watching unautorized porn videos at work.

The same was declared when...

[Anonymous Coward]

...ever a new version of Windows was released. Always the self-proclaimed experts with the "nobody wants it!" comments.

Yet each time we saw people and businesses scurry away to their nearest PC dealer and upgrade for the Must Have new version.

It'll be exactly the same with Vista too.

What about...

[postmortem]

Corporate Africa? Are they ready?

Re:Not ready for IE7 either

[pilgrim23]

Recently our shop took a perfectly functional, and working softwre interface down replacing it with a bug riddenm not ready for prime time and STILL doesn't work right months later .NET product. The Microsoft or no soft mindset is alive and well so as you see, we are ready to implement Vista, IE 7, or Tooth Fairy 4.0 as long as it shines with the light reflected from Ballmer's bald spot...

Uhh,

[ElephanTS]

Microsoft isn't ready for Vista, let alone corporate America.

Re:How to advocate free software

[TheGrinningFool]

Well, clearly you're just an M$$$$$$$$ shill.

Re:What about...

[Almahtar]

They've all got Ubuntu :-)