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. Yesterday, Microsoft Wednesday released Windows Vista SP1 RC Preview to 15,000 testers as part of its private beta program. It hopes the release of Vista SP1 will spur enterprise adoption. (SP1 is slated for general release around the same time as Windows Server 2008 will be available.) So Microsoft Subnet went straight to the source, readers, and surveyed 809 readers 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.
Here are the full results.
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