Source: http://www.computerworld.com
You don't need to be a n expert to know that Windows Vista has failed to convince the world's PC users to upgrade, even now, over a year after its release. Many PC manufacturers continue to offer XP in its place, especially in the professional world, where users are more cautious to change.
Two Gartner analysts have pilloried Microsoft in a recently-published scathing analysis. According to them, Microsoft has fallen short of expectations in the market and that such a cumbersome management of software compatibility has not been seen in twenty years. They are not there by a long-shot and Gartner advises professionals to migrate neither on a case-by-case basis as the renewal of machinery nor en masse.
The situation is all the more uncomfortable for Microsoft that the PC industry, Inte