Re: Vista: Cracks in the Armor of Windows?

On Jul 31, 5:11 pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1185919358.795967.266...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,



Edwin <thorn...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 31, 3:28 pm, Jim <j...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From that heavily Mac-Biased publication, InfoWorld. Not!

http://tinyurl.com/39upw3

Businesses having second thoughts about Vista
Survey shows more businesses are planning to stick with the Windows they
have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X

Fewer businesses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven
months ago, according to a survey by patch management vendor PatchLink,
while more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or
turn to Linux or Mac OS X.

In a just-released poll of more than 250 of its clients, PatchLink noted
that only 2 percent said they are already running Vista, while another 9
percent said they planned to roll out Vista in the next three months. A
landslide majority, 87 percent, said they would stay with their existing
version(s) of Windows.

Those numbers contrasted with a similar survey the Scottsdale,
Ariz.-based vendor published in December 2006. At the time, 43 percent
said they had plans to move to Vista while just 53 percent planned to
keep what Windows they had.

Today's hesitation also runs counter to what companies thought they
would do as of late last year. In PatchLink's December poll, 28 percent
said they would deploy Vista within the first year of its release. But
by the results of the latest survey, fewer than half as many -- just 11
percent -- will have opted for the next-generation operating system by
Nov. 1.

Their change of heart may be because of a changed perception of Vista's
security skills. Seven months ago -- within weeks of Vista's official
launch to business, but before the operating system started selling in
retail -- 50 percent of the CIOs, CSOs, IT, and network administrators
surveyed by PatchLink said they believe Vista to be more secure than
Windows XP. The poll put the security skeptical at 15 percent and pegged
those who weren't sure yet at 35 percent.

More...

--
Jim

This is one of the kind of posts about Vista Alan Baker finds it
convenient to ignore. He demands I prove they exist.

Where in this post has the author made a claim that Vista will not
exceed Mac OS X in market share?

In the first three paragraphs.

Failing that, what other kind of "post about Vista" have I demanded you
provide proof of?

There goes that convenient memory of yours again.

.

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