Microsoft: Vista bought but not deployed

12/12/2007 by swordfish.

Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista; however, the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.

“We have had a 27 percent increase in [Vista volume licence sales]. One of the benefits [for customers] is access to the next version of Windows and the other is access to the Enterprise edition [of Vista], which has its own unique features,” Microsoft Australia’s director of Windows Business Group, Jeff Putt, told ZDNet Australia.

However, when asked how many organisations with an enterprise agreement had actually deployed Windows Vista, Putt admitted that just because the companies had paid for licences, it did not mean they had rolled out the operating system yet.

“Deployment is a different issue. We have seen record [enterprise agreements] and that is an intention to deploy. The first step in a business using [Vista] is agreeing to use it,” Putt said.

According to Putt, most computers sold in the past two years are able to run Vista but enterprises are still holding back deployment to ensure their current hardware is Vista-compatible and there are no conflicts with legacy applications.

Source: ZDNet

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