The Biggest Competitor of Microsoft is Giving them Problems
Is Microsoft’s problem Apple? How about Linux? Naaah, it doesn’t even come close with their powerful 1% (or a little more?) enterprise market share. The biggest competitor of Microsoft in pushing Windows Vista is Microsoft itself, specifically Windows XP.
Forrester surveyed 600 US and European companies with more than 1,000 employees and the results indicate that their Windows XP adoption has increased by 17% from 67% last year to 84% this year.
It may not be good news to Windows Vista team; but it still good news to Steve Ballmer and Microsoft as a whole. As long as companies keep their loyalty to Microsoft then their adoption to Windows Vista is a sure thing.
According to companies surveyed, Windows XP has been working extremely well for them and the level of standardization for companies in Windows XP are well defined.
32% of companies surveyed said they would being Vista deployment by the end of 2008 while 17% says they would start in 2009 or 2010.
In Microsoft’s view this should be fine because whether companies buy Windows XP or Windows Vista; both will go to their bottomline. Eventually companies who continue buying Windows XP would end up spending more once they decide to move to Vista.
Microsoft’s competitor problem is Microsoft Windows XP, is it really a problem?
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1 opinion for The Biggest Competitor of Microsoft is Giving them Problems
Jack Weber
Apr 15, 2008 at 7:10 pm
My son made the mistake of sending my wife a Windows Vista machine, a Toshiba Satellite A 135 with Intel Pentium dual core processor, 1.73 GHz with 446 MB of remaining RAM after the software is loaded. The problems with this system are as follows, in comparison with Windows XP, Home Edition, SP-2.
1. It is EXTREMELY SLOW both in loading the operating system and in loading the applications. This even applies to loading and and deleting objects from the Recycle Bin, which is also EXTREMELY SLOW.
2. The Windows Picture Manager that comes with Vista is also EXTREMELY SLOW in downloading pictures from my Kodak and Argus digital cameras, and does not allow me to select those pictures I do not wish to include on the computer. This makes for DIFFICULT FILE MANAGEMENT and it is necessary to download all the photos from my camera, then delete the ones I do not want on that file. This then requires me to delete them from the Recycle Bin, another slow process.
3. Downloaded photos seem to be placed on the computer in RANDOM SEQUENCE, not in the order which they were taken and stored in the cameras, another problem which requires relabeling and redating them after they are on the computer.
4. I use the Netscape Navigator 9 version of Firefox on all my computers because the latest version of Mozilla Firefox will not show many of the pictures of objects on ebay. This is not a problem with IE7 which I have on all my computers but like many other Windows users, I have found that I get much fewer lockups and crashes with the Mozilla product than the Microsoft browser. Of course, it is nice to have the IE7 as some video graphics won’t run on the Mozilla product.
I am not a high powered computer user, using my WinTel machines mostly for viewing pictures, as word processors, and for internet applications. My first four computers were Amiga 1000, 2500, 3000 and 4000 machines and were much faster, more fun to use, and more reliable than what I now use.
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