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Story: US businesses warm to Vista

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Wow, that's a lot of numbers to be tossing about

I'm sitting here trying to figure out what all those numbers mean, and what "uptake" means as compared to "using or evaluating", or being "in the process of moving to Vista". Hmmm, 48% are "using or evaluating", while 35% are "in the process of moving". Is that 35% in addition to the 48%, so the total "uptake" is 82% who are "using, evaluating or in the process of moving"? That would be impressive, but I doubt it.

Ok, what about this.. 13% of the 35% are complete, so that would be 4.55% actually using Vista? That's not too impressive! Maybe it will get better in May... another third of the 35% should be done by then... (my teacher used to scold me for mixing fractions and percentages, now I understand why), that's another 11.55%, so that will be a total of a whopping 16.1% using Vista? That seems as ridiculously low as the 82% was high previously.

They say numbers don't lie... but they are certainly subject to different interpretations, and different presentations. The number I would like to see, which isn't present, is what percentage have "evaluated" Vista and then decided against it, as I have done twice now?

jw

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