The Future of Windows Vista

This article by Paul Thurrott (from Supersite for Windows) takes a look at the adoption of Windows Vista since it was launched. It seems that Vista will be on 5% of all business computers by the end of the year. That doesn't look like a lot, but it is better than the adoption of Windows 2000. Also Vista compatibility seems to be increasing.

From what I have seen, most Windows users will take their time to move to Vista. Some of the problems I encountered with various important products like IE and Outlook can be really frustrating, especially if it is affecting business work. Until systems administrators gain greater confidence about Vista, the movement towards Vista will be considerably affected.

Having said that, I think this is similar to the initial release of .NET. When .NET was released, it got a very lukewarm response. Java developers were shocked at what C# copied. Visual Basic were unhappy about the lack of compatibility. Yet within a couple of years, .NET had established its hold over the Windows developer community. Vista will need time to pick up the momentum.

These are the screenshots of the problems I faced in Vista (note previous posts here and here). I was not able to post this previously because Windows Live Writer is unable to post images directly to Blogger. Don't ask me why - another of those Microsoft-Google product "interoperability" problems, I guess. I am using the online editor in Blogger for this post.