Vista threatened by XP – survey

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Friendly fire: XP seems to have scored a blue-on-blue hit against stable-mate Vista

Windows Vista has more to fear from Windows XP than from any rival operating system, according to an industry analyst. A survey by Forrester Research of 600 firms with over 1,000 staff in the US and Europe found that Microsoft’s six year-old XP has become standard in enterprises.

Around 84% of Microsoft PCs now run XP, up from 67% a year ago. Only a third of survey respondents intend to start Vista deployments by the end of 2008, and a further 17% will start in 2009 or 2010.

The report noted: “Vista’s biggest competition is not Apple or Novell or Red Hat; it is Microsoft itself, with XP.”
Forrester also found a significant number of firms eagerly anticipating XP’s Service Pack 3, due later this year and slated as the last major upgrade. Microsoft has already extended XP support by five years beyond the original 2009 cut-off date.

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