Corporate technology decision makers are finally warming up to Windows Vista.
Nearly a third of IT managers are deploying Vista
Vista is running on fewer than 10 percent of business computers, but almost of a third of information-technology managers now say they have begun to migrate to the Windows XP successor, according to Forrester Research.
What’s more, there is considerable interest among these North American and European managers for Windows 7, Vista’s successor scheduled for release in early 2010.
All this could be good news for Microsoft, which is feeling the brunt of the global slowdown. “Vista is finally shaping up to be the operating system that dethrones Windows XP,” says Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray.
Still, IT execs say they worry about the challenge of administering an environment with two operating systems – Vista and Windows XP. That fear will only intensify as Windows 7, OS X from Apple and desktop Linux enter the picture.
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