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November 1, 2005
Vista adoption rate
Vista adoption rate: eWeek attempts to peer into the future, and determine how rapidly the new operating system will spread into the world. Some people upgrade older systems (which happen to meet the new minimum specs), but many tie OS purchases to new system purchases, and that curve will be on the downslide by autumn 2006, when the OS will be finished and bundled by hardware manufacturers. There's a lot of dueling numbers here -- some predict slow adoption through 2008/9, others predict the fastest MS adoption ever -- there's still confusion, though, about which shipping machines will be able to support which OS versions. Too much for me to figure out, but this is a good link if anyone pretends to you that they know what will happen when.... ;-)
Posted by John Dowdell at November 1, 2005 3:01 PM