A recent Network World article about what's keeping Vista from being deployed in the enterprise has drawn a steady stream of comments from readers. So Microsoft Subnet went straight to the source, readers, and surveyed 809 of them on Vista adoption.
The No. 1 reason Vista is not being adopted is that it's incompatible with existing applications. (And hey, that oughta do it. You can't have the operating system be the only thing properly working on employee's PCs.)
The second reason is that enterprises see no compelling technology. The third reason – though less than half named this one -- is the cost of hardware upgrades. Click here for the full results.
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