Latest From Forrester on Desktop OS Trends

[bill bolton]

"Corporate Desktop Operating System Trends, Q4 2007 Through Q2 2008

IT View Trends, by Benjamin Gray

IT operations professionals need to prepare for a more decisive shift in their desktop operating system (OS) strategy. Why now? Because Microsoft released Windows Vista to the general public more than 18 months ago — which is typically how long IT departments need to test their applications and hardware against any new OS.

Forrester's month-on-month study of more than 50,000 of our clients' OS preferences confirmed that users are on track with enterprises' initial Windows Vista deployment plans. IT operations folks are at a critical inflection point and should deploy Windows Vista to: 1) stay current with Microsoft's and independent software vendors' (ISVs') support life cycles; 2) help minimize today's security, management, and productivity challenges; and 3) better position your business to eventually embrace "Windows 7," because Windows Vista investments will ultimately pay off with better compatibility for this next release.

Our study also revealed interesting insight into Mac and Linux penetration, where desktop managers are painting a rosy future for Apple on the corporate desktop, but less so for Linux."

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Cheers,

Bill B.

[fasterbybike]

Looks like Forrester get paid to spout this rubbish

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9964505-16.html

“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.”

–Microsoft, internal document

[bill bolton]

Looks like Forrester get paid to spout this rubbish

Looks like you don't have any experience at all with how industry research actually works!