Vista delays give time to reflect
There's been plenty of kerfuffle about the delays in Windows Vista, for better for worse, and there is little to add to the debate - Grady Booch has an evenhanded summary of proceedings
here. Corporate SA/volume license agreement customers will still be getting a pre-holiday season version of Vista but Microsoft might have been better delaying that as well based on our research. According to
this report produced in partnership with Freeform Dynamics, in that we're not sure that any delays will make a great deal of difference to business customers, who show little inclination to move to Vista any time soon. Perhaps Microsoft should take the opportunity, and the time, to identify exactly why businesses would want to undertake an extensive upgrade of their desktops, and exactly how the benefits of Vista would outweigh the costs of the migration.
