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Forrester Research says: 1% of 653 Businesses Surveyed will Wait for Windows 8
If you’re not familiar with these types of things, there are companies out there who perform extensive research into just about anything you could think of. In the technology world, Gartner and Forrester are two of the most formidable players. Companies hire them to research and create statistical data to serve an array of purposes.
In a report dated October 2009, Forrester surveyed 653, “PC decision-makers at North American and European enterprises and SMBs about their Windows 7 deployment plans.” When similar research was performed prior to Vista, the majority of businesses surveyed were already singing the praises of a non-existent Windows 7, since anything had to be better than Windows Vista. Interestingly enough, this new research for Windows 7 shows that only 1% of the companies surveyed are planning to wait for Windows 8. Check out the following excerpt from the report:
The report is a solid look at just how well-received Windows 7 is, most likely by many of the same companies who wanted absolutely nothing to do with Vista. Feel free to download and check out the report – as well as others – from Symantec.
-Stephen
http://msftkitchen.com
lol, I try to think about who these guys waiting for Windows 8 are, given the quality of Windows 7. Well, perhaps if they just recently DID upgrade to Windows Vista and have some sort of upgrade policy to not upgrade OS more often than every five years or so.
I think that if there is going to be a change 128Bit Computers then why would companies want to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year or two only to find there may not be a compatible upgrade from 7 to 8, one of my friends told me that his IT Department still runs Windows 2000 on most of there machines due to some kind of specialised software his company run on there computers and they have decided to wait untill next year to start upgrading to Windows 7 as there policy is to upgrade every 10 years. Makes sense to me if they do not want to waste good computers just because of a change in the hardware standards