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[News] Microsoft Exaggerates Again (Claims Miserable 2% Vista Adoption in UK Businesses)

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Exaggerates Again (Claims Miserable 2% Vista Adoption in UK Businesses)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:47:08 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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[But it's less than 1% in reality (US at least), after a /whole/ year (see
below)]

Microsoft says Vista adoption is about 2% in enterprise

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft's John Curran, head of the Windows Client Group, said that a survey 
| by Computer Business Review found 2% of UK enterprises have upgraded to 
| Vista, is roughly where Microsoft pegs current adoption in the enterprise 
| too.   
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=1589AB78-D9C8-4210-84BE-48113688825B

Novell to Microsoft's rescue:

http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/vista_migration.html

Stinkin' Novell puppet! Microsoft's vassal.


Last month:

Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It

,----[ Quote ]
| A year after it began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops 
| are running Vista.     
`----

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html


Related:

Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the 
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said 
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.  
`----

http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/


Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista

,----[ Quote
| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to 
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the 
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.  
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and 
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based 
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and 
| Lenovo. 
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said. 
`----

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579


Interesting comment from CompUSA

,----[ Quote ]
| Every single one of them he said was returned from consumers... and that they 
| (CompUSA) couldn't ship them back. As he heard, Microsoft wasn't giving 
| credit back for unsold or returned copies... and didn't want the returned 
| figures made public... He wouldn't say that every single one of them 
| exchanged for a copy of Xp, he didn't know if that was true. So, I asked how 
| many boxes did they have. Same glare, followed with a "You do not want to 
| know" type statement.      
`----

http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/12/interesting-comment-from-compusa.html


Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however, 
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought 
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.  
`----

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm

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