Windows 7 Doomed, Says ScriptLogic Survey

Just a day after analysts predicted a dominant future for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system (due this October), a new report suggests that up to 60 per cent of all companies might be hesitant to make the upgrade from Windows Vista and XP as reported by Brandon Dimmel

The IDC Win7 forecast discussed yesterday painted a pretty picture indeed for Microsoft, suggesting that 75 per cent of all corporations would ditch XP and Vista for Windows 7 by 2011, just two years after its release. Given that most business users are XP users, that’s good news for Microsoft.

ScriptLogic Paints a Different Picture

However, another group of analysts, ScriptLogic, doesn’t share the same opinion.

In fact, in their survey ScriptLogic found that just 60 per cent of corporations would make the shift within the opening period of Win7’s availability. Another 34 per cent said they’d eventually move over to Windows 7 by the end of next year, but even that number is in doubt. (Source: pcworld.com)

Given that Windows Vista is considered by most businesses to have been Microsoft’s great “Vistake,” it means that the decade-old Windows XP is most likely to be large and in charge even two years after Win 7’s release

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