A similar survey of 56 users last July found that about 75% were running
Windows XP on half or more of their PCs, Forrester said in a report this
month. Warning of "upgrade apathy," the firm said that only one-third of
this year's respondents plan to start deploying Windows Vista when it
becomes available in late 2006 or even when Microsoft releases its
Service Pack 1 update. That's down from about 43% in the 2004 survey. In
addition, 20% of the users surveyed this year said they don't plan to
upgrade to Vista at all.
"For the first time in recent years, [many] firms now have a single
version of the Windows operating system to support," Forrester analyst
Simon Yates wrote in the report. "The prospect of beginning another
migration next year isn't appealing to them."
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