How quickly will businesses adopt Vista?

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Very, slowly!

Molasses rolling up hill on a very cold day in January, will move faster than Vista's adoption. There are just too many barriers against any quick adoption. This is just wishful thinking on Microsoft. Microsoft apparently believes that old adage: If you tell a lie long enough, it begins to become the truth.

Obstacles:

Hardware - Most businesses have a lot of older hardware which runs 2000/XP fine, but will need to be updated or replaced to run Vista.

Software - Most businesses have home developed apps that will need to be rewritten and tested prior to rolling out Vista, along with all third party apps. These costs will slow down any adoption of Vista.

Deployment - Vista images are approximately 5 gigs, more if third party apps, such as MSOffice are installed. Mass deployment of Vista will need to be completely changed and re-engineered. The costs of a team of techs to do these deployments will prevent a rapid adoption of Vista.

Time - Downtime of the workstations, user adoption and retraining, and the retraining of the help desk and IT support needs to be addressed.

No, Vista will take a long time to be adopted. The costs and resources to upgrade to Vista will make adoption very slow. The only way Microsoft can speed up Vista adoption, is to terminate 200/XP immediately, and I don't see that happening, at least right now. Anyone who believes that Vista adoption is on the fast track, needs their head thoroughly examined.

Posted by: linux for me   Posted on: 11/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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