Vista Makes Gains Despite Windows 7's Debut
Much of the IT world is busy preparing for Windows 7's debut in October. But don't look now, because Windows Vista is making something of a comeback.
A new survey shows that the nearly three-year-old Vista -- roundly criticized for being a sluggish, overpriced resource hog that initially had poor driver support and lack of application compatibility -- grew 4 percentage points between July 2008 and March 2009. As a result, Vista has been installed in 11.9 percent of IT shops, according to the report.
The gains that Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Vista has made have largely been at the expense of the reigning king of the PC operating system hill, the venerable Windows XP, which lost almost the same amount of share as Vista picked up during that time. As of March, XP still resided on 86 percent of all business PCs.
