Microsoft is "feeling quite good" about the adoption of its Windows Vista operating system a year after it was released.
Despite recent suggestions Microsoft is struggling to convince businesses about Vista, the tech giant claims it has been the most rapidly adopted OS in history.
Mike Haigh, UK Windows product marketing manager said: "We're feeling quite good about it. From a deployment perspective we're exactly where we expected to be."
According to Haigh, 88 million Vista licences (consumer and business versions combined) have been sold globally, with 100 million expected to be reached by the end of 2007.
And on uptake in the UK, he said: "We're following a pattern that I think the rest of the world is taking."
Haigh said Vista has also played a major role in a 27 percent increase in volume licensing agreements globally.
According to analysts, one of the major issues stopping businesses moving onto Vista is its lack of compatibility with applications and devices, but Haigh said this is quickly becoming less of a problem.
He said around 2.2 million devices are now supported by Vista — with 700,000 added since its launch — and around 41,000 are supported by Windows updates.
He said: "We've made some major steps forwards."
And looking into the near future, Haigh suggested the healthy consumer uptake of Vista will further drive businesses to migrate, as workers demand the operating system in the workplace as well.
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What is the point of publishing Microsoft marketing propaganda?
df 29 Nov 07 21:27 ReplyAs if they might say to us- "gee, you know, a lot of folks are really trying to avoid Vista".
They have no history of being candid.
They can't have *not* known how sucky it was, so they would have been expecting to be precisely where they are if you ask me!
Jilly_Gates 30 Nov 07 05:25 ReplyI wonder if they can make an accurate count of how many people, and companies that have reversed direction and gone back to XP or upgraded to Linux?
ator1940 30 Nov 07 13:30 ReplyI don't know whether the guys from Microsoft have read all the stories concerning Vista, otherwise they wouldn't attribute Vista's success to consumer desire.
harpless 30 Nov 07 21:29 ReplyIts been a year since manufacturers stopped shipping brand new computers with Windows XP pre-installed, am not sure whether this is forced onto them by Microsoft but had they made it optional for consumers to choose between Vista and XP upon buying a new PC, the numbers wouldn't be so favourable.
To say that workers will demand Vista in the office just because they've used it at home is wishfull thinking; in terms of user experience, there's little difference between the XP and Vista.
If i were a business, i'd hold out for atleast 2 more years!