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."

MS made big mistake with XP

[Sciros]

It didn't suck enough. Stuff works with it, it's secure enough, it's no longer costly, it uses a fraction of the firepower recommended for Vista.

I don't think Vista is a bad OS at all. But if XP is working fine, and the next step up is only a mild improvement (and from my experience, something that the home user will notice more than a work user), it's not worth switching. XP just isn't bad enough to move on from.

(Now, if only OS's could get crappier over time, like cars...) Maybe MS should release a "critical update" that turns it into Windows ME or 98.

Re:Slashdot... oh slashdot...

[MysteriousPreacher]

Shh, stop spoiling the fun.

It's clear that large corporations are normally the early adopters and it's highly unusual that we didn't see CTOs standing outside Circuit City at midnight waiting for Vista to be released so they could immediately install it on their mission-critical machines.

Duh!

[filesiteguy]

I can't imagine ANYONE using Vista. I tried - honestly - to like it for at least a week. However, when you get screens like the one below, you just have to upgrade to Linux..

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20070519_vi sta_register2.jpg.jpg

Re:MS made big mistake with XP

[mini me]

Do people really reboot PCs 100+ times a day so that saving 15-20 seconds on boot is really THAT important?

I take it you never used Windows 9x/NT. Practically every operation required a reboot. Even just looking at the thing funny would prompt you to reboot.

Re:MS made big mistake with XP

[chuckymonkey]

Could you send me some of that hardware? I'm working on getting computers into schools running edubuntu and can always use "new" hardware for it.