Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Feb 2006 18:50 UTC
Microsoft executives already are counting their Vista chickens before the next-generation Windows release has hatched. A Microsoft vice president on Feb. 1 detailed for attendees of the Merrill Lynch IT Services & Software Conference Microsoft's reasons for its high expectations for Vista, the release of Windows client due to ship in the latter half of this year. Microsoft expects 200 million new PCs to ship with Vista preloaded in the first 24 months that the operating system is available, said Michael Sievert, corporate vice president, Windows Product Management & Marketing.
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2. A huge number of corporate IT departments lease equipment, so they are on a 24-36 month technology refresh cycle. Once these corporate IT departments test and certify Vista, they will make it the new standard and any new PCs will have Vista instead of XP
A huge number of IT department already have corporate licenses agreements for win2000 or Xp, they upgrade PC's when needed and use their already licensed OS. Huge numbers of other corporations are switching to terminal server solutions like Citrix, removing most of the upgrade needs.
3. MSFT will use productivity features in Office 12 to drive adoption of the Office Suite, and tie it back to Vista, this will provide IT departments with the motivation they need to support Vista.
Most corporation will actually not have any great benefit from those features, and when analyzing costs they will see no savings in a costly upgrade. Corporations have already started looking into switching some of their employees to OO rather than having to invest in more new Office licenses.
4. A major hurdle Linux has is the need for FLAWLESS support for Office documents. A corporation that migrates to Linux, then has compatibility issues with their clients Office documents is going to be a corporation looking for a new CIO.
Those compability issues with Office are small since only fractions of most companies have any contact with customers and clients. Hence only a small portion of the employees actually need that supposedly flawless support, format on internal documents are purely a company policy. A coporation cutting the cost on the majority of company desktops is going to be a company looking to give their CIO a bonus or a raise.
5. New PCs from PC vendors will have Vista
And that's the real source of revenue Vista will have. Home users will not upgrade unless they get new computers and corporations will stay with their existing licenses as long as possible.