Latest Gartner Stats Shows Microsoft Should Delay Windows 7
The latest Gartner statistic as published by Internet News are as follows:
On a global basis, projected use of Windows 2000 fell from 15 percent of the installed base in 2007 to eight percent in 2008, and Gartner predicts it will fall to only four percent in 2009, according to summary data from the report.
At the same time, XP Professional usage fell from 71 percent in 2007 to an expected 63 percent this year, and will fall to 47 percent next year. Meanwhile, Vista adoption is slowly picking up steam, partly because Microsoft shipped Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) last quarter.
The Gartner report has Vista usage rising from 4 percent last year to 19 percent in 2008, and then doubling to 39 percent in 2009 as corporate deployments kick into gear.
What is happening is that many corporations have been waiting to test the final of SP1 before planning to roll out Vista company wide, thus pushing the typical adoption process back by a few months. “Many large enterprises have kicked out their deployments a bit out into 2009,” Shiffler said.
The Windows Vista steam engine is accelerating especially in the enterprise which means Microsoft should delay Windows 7 until 2010 or 2011.
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