Microsoft Asia Pacific has responded to researchers' claims that enterprise chief information officers "have not warmed to the Vista operating system over the past year."The northern hemisphere researchers said that the CIOs they recently surveyed voted 11 to one against plans to implement Vista. The researchers concluded that "CIOs and other heads of IT still believe there is little business value in migrating from XP to Vista, especially in the current economic climate."
Richard Francis, General Manager, Windows Client Group, Microsoft Asia Pacific, said that, overall, sales of Windows Vista licenses have passed 180 million since launch, and at least 100 million Windows Vista users have actively hit Windows Update. Francis also claims that this is the right time customers are starting to deploy, especially with Windows Vista SP1.
Francis also added that they (Microsoft) have received positive feedback from enterprises and SMB customers in APAC who have experienced the business benefits of Windows Vista and that the history of the operating system lifecycle clearly suggests an increase in deployment 18 months into the launch or close to release of SP1.
No wonder, what business will implement Vista now, with Windows 7 just around the corner? Might as well wait a while longer.
So what's up with the other 80 million licenses? Could they be from pre-installed boxes that were downgraded to XP, and never got to be used?
I'd like to be proven wrong about this, but I don't think I am.
Apart from that, it's o.k.
I wish thought M$ would write drivers for their own hardware in 64-bit-code.
Then I could use 64-Bit.
Apart from that, it's o.k.
I wish thought M$ would write drivers for their own hardware in 64-bit-code.
Then I could use 64-Bit.
What MS hardware doesn't have 64 bit drivers? My LifeCam, Zune and Sidewinder X5 mouse all have proper drivers? Is it something older?
Apart from that, it's o.k.
I wish thought M$ would write drivers for their own hardware in 64-bit-code.
Then I could use 64-Bit.
Oh, sorry, I didn't know it was talk out of your ass day.
Apart from that, it's o.k.
I wish thought M$ would write drivers for their own hardware in 64-bit-code.
Then I could use 64-Bit.
What MS hardware doesn't have 64 bit drivers? My LifeCam, Zune and Sidewinder X5 mouse all have proper drivers? Is it something older?
Fingerprint reader
I just wish there were x64 drivers for my Canon MF5650 laser printer..
Don't worry, the media will bash Win7 for a few years just like they bash every new MS OS. Every time a new OS comes out they bash it for a few years then miraculously this terrible OS turns into the best thing since Apple pie and they don't know how the lived without it. So if you want to wait for Win7 you will have to wait a few years for the media to adopt it. Unfortunately CFO's and CEO's listen to the media and tell their IT departments that it isn't time to upgrade even if the IT dep has decided to give it the green light. By the time the media decides an OS is worthy, the next OS is right around the corner. At some point you have to move on or you will just be waiting forever.
that is canon fault, if they didn't provide 64bit drivers for vista, they won't provide them for win7 either. time to give up on that old hardware
Agreed, might be a good idea to write a complaint to canon for their crappy support. I have a newer (but not brand new) scanner and they seem to deliberately limit the drivers once a new revision of their product is launched.
They usually stick with what works for them and in many cases they are stuck with the OS their software/hardware supports. For example if the company printers don't support Vista and the company that made them have no intentions to add Vista support, the company can't upgrade to Vista till the printers get replaced. Bad example I know, but I hope someone gets what I'm trying to say? maybe?
This is exactly what they do!!! I doubt having 4 gigs of RAM and an Intel 9xx graphics chip would be slowing such a machine but I guess many people are already used to the Grayness and such that even though the options are the same, they would not choose anything new. They don't care for the shiny graphics as you said, they only want the job done effectively and productively.
I had an old Canon 4015-IX maybe 15+ years ago. It worked with Windows 9x series, and Canon did not come out with an XP driver.
Funny thing is, it worked in Linux without me even having to find a driver. And rm20010's LIDE20 model is likewise supported in Linux. No need to have a hardware vendor force you into purchasing new hardware for them when the driver is open source. Use it as long as you want to.
Yes, 100,000,000 machines hitting Windows Update with Vista = 4%.
I have read this sentence three times now, and this still makes less than no sense.
The only sense I can make out of it is "Francis also claims that this is the right time for customers
are startingto deploy, especially with Windows Vista SP1."Who do you think created them in the first place?
There are a fair number of untruths in those Apple commercials, and a lot of the early slamming was based on impressions from the betas.
Most of those rants about Vista that I hear is from people who never use Vista, try it on old P3 hardware, or are just from those Mac PC ads. Microsoft should not tell too much about the beta stages either, just of the codename and the final name. Not even the release date should be let out to many people either because this is where most of the FUD begins of a new OS.
For new machines, they'll come with Win 7 Pre-installed. No need to keep Vista around for that.
For businesses, if XP is doing the job, it will still do the job next year. That's what most people don't understand. businesses don't need the fancy GUI or DirectX 10 and they already have good firewalls on their proxy servers, so they don't need the annoying security increase of Vista. Businesses have prenty of time to wait until Win 7 is deem good and ready.
EDIT: Oh dear something went wrong, this was suppose to be a reply to MChino's post above!
Most businesses have Volume License Key, they don't need to buy single license. Businesses using VLK pay once a year for their use of Windows. Microsoft drop by once in a while to make an audit of how many PCs run the VLK and then they charge accordingly.
Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!
Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.