Windows Vista Sales Yet To Reach Basement?
How bad are Windows Vista sales?
Available for almost a year now to Software Assurance users, Sunbelt Software estimates Windows Vista claims just 0.32 percent market share among businesses. That's just slightly more than the 10-year old Windows 98!
The winner in Sunbelt Software's test? Windows XP claimed 82.91 percent of the business market. No surprise there; Windows XP's finally gotten its kinks out and serves as a fairly stable platform.
Meanwhile, Windows Vista sales have proven so lackluster, and incompatibility reports have been so prominent, that some analysts suggest Microsoft needs to release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as a freshly renamed and different operating system. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I will say this; Vista's incompatibilities and authentication and security differences fairly complicate computing. Few businesses I know are up to the challenge; they'll continue plodding along happily with Windows XP boxes, which overwhelming continue to be the preference of all the small businesses with which I meet.
Available for almost a year now to Software Assurance users, Sunbelt Software estimates Windows Vista claims just 0.32 percent market share among businesses. That's just slightly more than the 10-year old Windows 98!
The winner in Sunbelt Software's test? Windows XP claimed 82.91 percent of the business market. No surprise there; Windows XP's finally gotten its kinks out and serves as a fairly stable platform.
Meanwhile, Windows Vista sales have proven so lackluster, and incompatibility reports have been so prominent, that some analysts suggest Microsoft needs to release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as a freshly renamed and different operating system. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I will say this; Vista's incompatibilities and authentication and security differences fairly complicate computing. Few businesses I know are up to the challenge; they'll continue plodding along happily with Windows XP boxes, which overwhelming continue to be the preference of all the small businesses with which I meet.
posted by Erik Eckel at 8:24 PM
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