Vista too power hungry for corporate PCs
Research conducted by Softchoice shows that Microsoft’s Vista Windows operating system is too power hungry for the majority of corporate PCs.
The study revealed that 94% of the business surveyed PCs are unable to meet the premium system requirements of Vista, and nearly 50% cannot even meet the minimum requirements. The study also showed that 60% of organizations are planning to wait more than six 6 months before switching to Vista; and roughly 50% (of those) plan to wait at least a year or more.
TECH.BLORGE.com broke this story over the weekend, and we’ve now got our hands on a copy of the full report. The additional details in this study reveal that 41% of business PCs do not meet the minimum RAM requirements and 12% do not meet the minimum CPU requirements. There are other factors involved such as limited hard drive space due to extended PC lifecycles; although, they are not deemed to be as significant a problem as the CPU and memory issues.
Softchoice used data from over 112,000 computers in over 450 corporations in North America to evaluate their ability to run Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista. According to Softchoice, the inability for organizations to deploy Vista is mainly due to such a large increase in hardware resources required by Microsoft’s new OS.
In the case of the Windows XP launch, for example, the minimum CPU requirements were 75% greater than Microsoft’s preceding OS, Windows 2000; whereas Vista’s minimum CPU requirements are 243% larger than that of XP. When XP was released, 10% of all PCs switched over within the first year; this was with 71% percent being able to meet the system requirements (at the time). Microsoft is expecting to double this, with a 20% user switchover within Vista’s first year.
Softchoice outlines specific ways to overcome such large OS requirement gaps; although, its plan would have needed to be implemented two or more years ago. This is causing companies to delay their deployment of Vista to the distant future; quite possibly integrating Vista closer to the release of Vista: Second Edition.
Maybe those companies being faced with unexpected upgrade/replacement expenses will reconsider their decision before rolling out the red carpet for Vista.
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