Not much love for Vista
The Register comments on a recent report by Forrester (the report itself is not a free download). Apparently, adoption of Vista in the enterprise market has not moved much since last July. It’s still just under 10% of corporate PCs that run Vista. The Register article then concludes that Windows 7 will come to the market sooner, rather than later.
In essence, the quick release of Windows 7 is seen as both a necessity for Microsoft as well as an admission of the ultimate failure of Vista. Considering the $6 billion development price tag, and who-knows how much additional money for marketing and sales efforts, could Vista be the biggest failure coming out of Redmond so far?
Surely, most of the Vista developments were re-used for Windows 7. But the marketing dollars are lost, and the investment in Vista did not pay off as quickly as hoped for (greatly delayed ROI). Any substantial pay-off may only materialize after the re-packaged and re-branded Vista finally begins to sell under the Windows 7 name.
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