Windows XP still powering 71 percent of business PCs
More than two years after the Windows Vista launch, XP is still the dominant business PC operating system in North America and Europe.
Windows Vista “finally appears ready to dethrone XP” as the operating-system choice for enterprise PCs, trumpeted a new Forrester Research report released on January 30. But the report, based on a survey of 962 IT decision makers, didn’t do much to bolster Vista’s image in the market. From the report by Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray:
“IT decision-makers don’t have an entirely rosy outlook for Windows Vista. We found that 15% plan on skipping Windows Vista entirely and going straight to Windows 7 soon after its release in 2010. And another 22% still have no definitive plans for deploying Windows Vista, and 6% simply don’t know yet what their plans are.”
Forrester found that IT managers are finally starting their company-wide Vista deployments now. Currently, Vista is powering almost 10 percent of PCs in North American and Europaen businesses, the Forrestr researchers said.
