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July 25, 2008

KACE, a systems management company, has released a report that reveals that over 60 percent of Windows XP users surveyed have no plans to deploy Microsoft Windows Vista.

This represents a 10 percent increase over a similar survey done by KACE in November of last year.

Overall, about 42 percent of these users are actively exploring Vista alternatives, with 11 percent having made the leap to alternative platforms such as Linux or Mac-OS X.

More than eighteen months after the release of Windows Vista, enterprise adoption is still in the single digits, and the majority of that seems to have come from upgrades of legacy Windows versions, and not always XP.

By trying to emulate Apple, some abservers think that Microsoft is lagging severely in terms of growth.

In an email sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to its Redmond employees, Ballmer argued that "the overall success of Windows is our number one job," while acknowledging that to compete with Apple that it outsells "30-to-1" it will change the way it works with hardware companies to try to catch up.

There are also rumors that Microsoft is planning to launch mobile phone interfaces to compete with Apple's iPhone, with a touch-screen GUI that will make people excited (at least that's what the rumor suggests.

Additionally, Ballmer ended his missive to his employees by demanding that people believe Microsoft is "the best in the world at doing software and nobody should be confused about this." (!)

While Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth talks about being better than Apple, the best Ballmer can do is to aspire to be like Apple. Some say it simply won't work.

Understandably, some people are greatly confused on that point. They're doing all sorts of things like using Linux for servers, Apple for mobile and desktops, MySQL for databases, etc. They no longer think Microsoft writes the best software.

Microsoft is no longer the leader of the industry's best software. Time will tell if the situation will worsen (for Microsoft that is) or if it will get better.

Source: My Web Services.

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