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Chad Harris
MSFT is staying the course despite all clinical signs on the ground just as
its native country is doing so with 3 billion spent a week and a total
fiasco beyond all imagined proportions. Both are trying to do an incredible
selling job of black as white.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39283752,00.htm
For one arena we have Woodward's book and the contorted posturing to deny
the trainwreck in the war to preserve oil addiction in the United States
http://www.amazon.com/State-Denial-Bush-War-Part/dp/0743272234
Redmond is conducting a parallel state of denial--and by the way the Upgrade
Advisor is patently wrong in many many hardware assessment situations--just
flat out wrong in saying drivers will not work and that hardware will not
run Vista superbly and exremely fast and faster on the same box than XP.
Maybe Condi Rice now caught in scores of lies and totally out of her depth
should work with Sinofsky and Brad Goldberg--they'd be comfortable in
selling delusions.
News > Software > Windows Tuesday 3rd October 2006
Microsoft predicts Vista stampede
Joris Evers
CNET News.com
October 02, 2006, 08:50 BST
Tell us your opinion
Software giant claims businesses will rush to upgrade to Vista,
but analysts paint a different picture
Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by
companies twice as fast as its predecessor, Windows XP.
Twelve months after the release of Vista, Microsoft expects that
usage share of the oft-delayed operating system in businesses will be double
that of XP a year after it shipped, said Brad Goldberg, general manager for
Windows product management at the software maker.
"Vista is built for businesses," Goldberg said. "We're giving
businesses the tools they need to get out of the gate faster with Vista...
Our goal is to have twice as fast deployment of Vista than for any other
operating system."
Microsoft declined to give its own figures on Windows XP's usage
percentages, and instead referred to research by IDC. According to the
analyst company, XP was installed on about 10 percent of enterprise PCs
after a year. That would put the goal for Vista at 20 percent.
"For them to do 20 percent in the first 12 months of
availability is almost impossible," said Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC. "They
have done all the right things, but adoption is going to be driven by
corporate adoption and deployment cycles, more so than by whether Microsoft
has greased the skids to make the product glide in faster."
IDC expects a healthy adoption of Vista, Gillen said. "But we're
not expecting it to be fundamentally different from previous releases of
Windows," he said. IDC's projections suggest that 11 percent of business PCs
that run Windows will be running Vista at the end of next year, Gillen said.
Rival analyst company Gartner expects the installed base of
Vista in large enterprises to be about 10 percent a year and a half after it
ships. "We're not hearing companies say they're in a rush to get their users
to Vista," said Gartner analyst Michael Silver.
Vista, the first major upgrade to Windows since XP shipped in
late 2001, is slated to become available to businesses in November. Broad
availability is scheduled for January.
Help and hindrance
Microsoft has said that corporate adoption of Windows XP was
slower than it would have liked.
XP was slow to gain traction among enterprise customers, in part
because it came on the heels of Windows 2000, Goldberg said. Additionally,
Microsoft was late with tools to support its adoption. For example, a kit to
test the compatibility of applications with XP was released nine months
after the operating system, and documented deployment guidance took two
years, he said.
With Vista, those tools, as well as people trained to help
businesses move to the Windows update, will be available as soon as it ships
or shortly thereafter, Goldberg said.
Furthermore, Vista should make it easier and cheaper for
organisations to manage PCs that run the new operating system, Goldberg
said. "Vista has business customers at the centre of everything we've done,"
he said. "In some cases, it will be cheaper for an organisation to upgrade
to Vista than to keep their current configuration."
Microsoft has addressed many of the key adoption blockers, but
that alone isn't enough, Silver said. A lot will hinge on the availability
of third-party software that supports the update. "That's the biggest
inhibitor to deploying a lot of Vista very soon after it ships," he said.
One Microsoft customer plans to upgrade to Vista at a pace even
quicker than its maker predicts — but not for the sake of getting a new
operating system. Instead, the operating system will come in as part of its
upgrade cycle for computers.
"When we replace our PCs, they will run Vista, and we will
replace a third of our PCs over the next year," said Thomas Smith, the
manager of client services at a large Houston company.
Smith, who is responsible for about 9,000 PCs, doesn't buy
Microsoft's argument that Vista is cheaper to run.
"It takes more hardware, the learning curve is costly, the help
desk calls are going to escalate, we'll have to manage both XP and Vista, I
think you're actually going to increase cost, at least in the short term,"
he said.
Time will tell. Stay the course with the actual Beta 1 that is going to RTM
in 21 days. In case after case, MSFT Vista team members have been directly
emailed major bugs and they pretend ***not to see them.
They won't get fixed come Sp1 either. It must be wonderful to be able to
sustain such arrogance while Rome burns.
CH
its native country is doing so with 3 billion spent a week and a total
fiasco beyond all imagined proportions. Both are trying to do an incredible
selling job of black as white.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39283752,00.htm
For one arena we have Woodward's book and the contorted posturing to deny
the trainwreck in the war to preserve oil addiction in the United States
http://www.amazon.com/State-Denial-Bush-War-Part/dp/0743272234
Redmond is conducting a parallel state of denial--and by the way the Upgrade
Advisor is patently wrong in many many hardware assessment situations--just
flat out wrong in saying drivers will not work and that hardware will not
run Vista superbly and exremely fast and faster on the same box than XP.
Maybe Condi Rice now caught in scores of lies and totally out of her depth
should work with Sinofsky and Brad Goldberg--they'd be comfortable in
selling delusions.
News > Software > Windows Tuesday 3rd October 2006
Microsoft predicts Vista stampede
Joris Evers
CNET News.com
October 02, 2006, 08:50 BST
Tell us your opinion
Software giant claims businesses will rush to upgrade to Vista,
but analysts paint a different picture
Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by
companies twice as fast as its predecessor, Windows XP.
Twelve months after the release of Vista, Microsoft expects that
usage share of the oft-delayed operating system in businesses will be double
that of XP a year after it shipped, said Brad Goldberg, general manager for
Windows product management at the software maker.
"Vista is built for businesses," Goldberg said. "We're giving
businesses the tools they need to get out of the gate faster with Vista...
Our goal is to have twice as fast deployment of Vista than for any other
operating system."
Microsoft declined to give its own figures on Windows XP's usage
percentages, and instead referred to research by IDC. According to the
analyst company, XP was installed on about 10 percent of enterprise PCs
after a year. That would put the goal for Vista at 20 percent.
"For them to do 20 percent in the first 12 months of
availability is almost impossible," said Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC. "They
have done all the right things, but adoption is going to be driven by
corporate adoption and deployment cycles, more so than by whether Microsoft
has greased the skids to make the product glide in faster."
IDC expects a healthy adoption of Vista, Gillen said. "But we're
not expecting it to be fundamentally different from previous releases of
Windows," he said. IDC's projections suggest that 11 percent of business PCs
that run Windows will be running Vista at the end of next year, Gillen said.
Rival analyst company Gartner expects the installed base of
Vista in large enterprises to be about 10 percent a year and a half after it
ships. "We're not hearing companies say they're in a rush to get their users
to Vista," said Gartner analyst Michael Silver.
Vista, the first major upgrade to Windows since XP shipped in
late 2001, is slated to become available to businesses in November. Broad
availability is scheduled for January.
Help and hindrance
Microsoft has said that corporate adoption of Windows XP was
slower than it would have liked.
XP was slow to gain traction among enterprise customers, in part
because it came on the heels of Windows 2000, Goldberg said. Additionally,
Microsoft was late with tools to support its adoption. For example, a kit to
test the compatibility of applications with XP was released nine months
after the operating system, and documented deployment guidance took two
years, he said.
With Vista, those tools, as well as people trained to help
businesses move to the Windows update, will be available as soon as it ships
or shortly thereafter, Goldberg said.
Furthermore, Vista should make it easier and cheaper for
organisations to manage PCs that run the new operating system, Goldberg
said. "Vista has business customers at the centre of everything we've done,"
he said. "In some cases, it will be cheaper for an organisation to upgrade
to Vista than to keep their current configuration."
Microsoft has addressed many of the key adoption blockers, but
that alone isn't enough, Silver said. A lot will hinge on the availability
of third-party software that supports the update. "That's the biggest
inhibitor to deploying a lot of Vista very soon after it ships," he said.
One Microsoft customer plans to upgrade to Vista at a pace even
quicker than its maker predicts — but not for the sake of getting a new
operating system. Instead, the operating system will come in as part of its
upgrade cycle for computers.
"When we replace our PCs, they will run Vista, and we will
replace a third of our PCs over the next year," said Thomas Smith, the
manager of client services at a large Houston company.
Smith, who is responsible for about 9,000 PCs, doesn't buy
Microsoft's argument that Vista is cheaper to run.
"It takes more hardware, the learning curve is costly, the help
desk calls are going to escalate, we'll have to manage both XP and Vista, I
think you're actually going to increase cost, at least in the short term,"
he said.
Time will tell. Stay the course with the actual Beta 1 that is going to RTM
in 21 days. In case after case, MSFT Vista team members have been directly
emailed major bugs and they pretend ***not to see them.
They won't get fixed come Sp1 either. It must be wonderful to be able to
sustain such arrogance while Rome burns.
CH