Not too long after Hotchkis Sport Suspension released sway bars for the Toyota Matrix, the Matrix community discovered that they had a tendency to crack. Hotchkis was great about replacing the bars, but many owners nonetheless waited to buy from a redesigned second batch. Now, businesses that aren’t fond of Vista may just hold onto XP until 2010.
2010 - or late 2009 - is when the next version of Windows is supposed to launch, and - assuming that it isn’t delayed - two or so years doesn’t seem like a long time to put off an upgrade. “A year after Microsoft released Vista to duplicators, 38% of companies claimed they had no plans at this stage to deploy the operating system,” reports Gregg Keizer. “Another 14% said they just didn’t know.”
From Microsoft’s point of view, that can’t exactly be encouraging - Vista was supposed to be the company’s Grand New Product. Meanwhile, regardless of how well XP is doing, competitors are probably looking at those statistics as a great opportunity to grab market share.
Still, although Vista’s semi-failure may be embarrassing and somewhat financially hurtful, it’s not likely to overturn the entire OS market; many Matrix owners did, after all, wait for Hotchkis’s second batch of sway bars.
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Vista not WinME
It seems many are quick to write-off Vista as the next Windows ME but history shows businesses are very motivated (or unmotivated depending on how you look at it) to take a wait and see approach until SP1 is released.
well, they released SP1
and it still sucks just as much. bye bye vista.
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