Microsoft: Businesses to Embrace Vista in Record Numbers

Timely reality check 

To meet Microsoft's publicly stated goals, Vista will have to be deployed on 20 percent of business desktops by November 2007. (XP reached about 10 percent of business desktops after one year on the market.) The 20 percent goal seems lofty, given the relatively staid pace at which corporations typically upgrade. But the migration to XP went much more slowly than expected because Microsoft released XP so quickly after Windows 2000. Businesses have now been waiting an unprecedented five years for a major Windows release. The demand, according to Microsoft, is there.

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