Sunbelt Software, makers of the corporate anti-spyware product Counterspy Enterprise, recently released statistics indicating Windows Vista's penetration into the business sector. In their sample audience, which was generally composed of small and medium businesses and included windows only PC's, Vista adoption was a mere 0.32%. Windows XP has the lion's share (82.91%) followed by Windows 2000 (14.88%) and Windows Server 2003 (1.83%).
There are many opinions as to why this may be the case. While I can't speak for the industry in general from our experience Vista's small value add of a sleeker user interface provides very little business value considering it comes at the cost of Vista's aggressive hardware requirements, slow performance, obtrusive user account management, general incompatibilities, and poor backup utility.
With Vista's poor adoption, Apple's upcoming release of OS X Leopard at the end of October, and new distros (versions) of Linux shipping with a true, 3D accelerated user interface (Compix-Fusion) it should prove to be an interesting time for the desktop computer industry as a whole. Even PC manufacturing giant Dell has started to release desktop computers with Ubuntu, a very popular and user friendly version of Linux. Hopefully as more and more software becomes available for these non-Microsoft platforms companies will actually be able to choose which operating system they want to run rather than have the market dictate it for them.
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