Vista SP1, which will ship this quarter, could be helping businesses warm up to the idea of using Vista. But if you read the results of this new pro-Vista study carefully, the study lumped in those who are "evaluating" Vista with those that are actually testing it -- presumably for app compatibility (something that SP1 promises to do better, too). Specifically, this article says: "In a survey conducted by Walker Information on behalf of IT product supplier CDW, 48% of the 772 responding organizations said they were either evaluating or testing Windows Vista. That number is up 65% from the same survey done in February 2007, when 29% percent of respondents said they were either evaluating or testing the operating system. In the October 2006 edition of the same study, only 12% said they were that far along with Vista."

Are businesses looking at Vista more now because Vista seems like it is improving or are they keeping an eye on it for some other reason, like they have to buy new PCs soon and want to know if they can function with it?

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