Microsoft Vista stalls in the enterprise

Businesses are bucking any and every trend to move to Microsoft Vista. Almost a year after its release, sales are still sluggish. And analysts say that won't change anytime soon. "From what we've seen so far, enterprises in the US and Europe have been slow to take it up," said Mike Silver, research vice president at Gartner. Silver said that software vendors have yet to come out with enough software that will work with the OS. And companies don't seem to see much point in using Vista over XP, the operating system it replaces. "Organizations really are not sold on the benefits [of Vista]," Silver said." Nonetheless, Silver still thinks Vista sales will increase in 2008 with the arrival of the first service pack. Microsoft must be keeping its fingers crossed on this one.

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