On the business side, Vista has gotten a big thumbs down, with many companies choosing to wait, or forcing Microsoft to keep extending the availability of Windows XP as a purchase option. But the Vista distaste has given way to economic realities.
«The reality is that the economic situation is causing a lot of companies (both small and large) to slow down their PC replacements and postpone non-essential projects. This is likely to impact corporate Vista deployments significantly — in a negative way,» Kleynhans said.
However, Microsoft plans to end support for Windows XP on April 2014, so companies will start to feel some pressure to start migrating their computers from XP to something else and be finished by the middle of 2013.
That would be cutting it close for companies that eschew Vista, which almost half said they would do in one survey. Windows 7 deployments won't start until 2011 because it takes at least a year to get all the pieces lined up, get apps tested, get support from third parties, and so on, said Kleynhans.
'Mainstream' Support for XP Ends Today Microsoft will continue to offer limited 'extended' support until 2014.
Microsoft ends so-called "mainstream" support for Windows XP on Tuesday, April 14, 2009.
After that date, the company will provide "extended" support for another five years until April 8, 2014. However, extended support only includes free security fixes along with paid per-incident support as well as support [...]
Microsoft Illegally Tied IE to Windows It's 1997 again. Antitrust violations go back 12 years, according to the Europe's antitrust commissioner. Big bucks are at stake.
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Remember what a rough time Microsoft had with the European Commission's (EC) competition directorate in 2007 and 2008?
If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thought those days of [...]
Report: IT Salaries Still Rising Developers, IT executives and managers are projected to see the highest salary growth despite the recession, a report from Computer Economics says.
While the economy is hitting technology companies hard, a new report suggests that corporate information technology jobs may be a bit more recession-proof. Computer Economics's 2009 IT Salary Report finds that while salary [...]
Open Source Backers See Downturn Opportunity Prominent open source executives make the case for lower-cost alternatives during the economic crisis.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Most tech suppliers aren't too happy about the state of the economy. Tighter budgets brought on by the crisis generally means less IT spending. Proponents of open software don't dispute the challenge, but they argue the current tough times [...]
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