Survey: Windows 7 adoption rate to be 3X higher than XP in its first year

iulie 15 02:00 2009

Windows 7 is well on its way to becoming a major success for Microsoft, making Vista’s poor adoption rates a thing of the past. Scriptlogic, a software developer specializing in Windows management software, claims that there is a high acceptance of Windows 7 among small and medium businesses.

The survey was conducted with 1100 IT Professionals, and 41% of them have plans to deploy Windows 7 in their orgnaizations by 2010, which is 14 months after the release of Windows 7. Taking into consideration that it has become typical for most organizations to wait until SP1 before deploying a new opearting system, this is a big percentage. ScriptLogic also indicated that this is a strong adoption rate compared to the adoption rate of 12-14% Windows XP had in its first year.

One of the questions asked respondents to choose from a list of five things that would prove to be the biggest barrier for them to deploy Windows 7. Time and Resources and Application Compatibility topped the list with 42.7% and 39.1% response respectively, while Migration of User Settings and Hardware Support had the lowest with 2.2% and 7.5% respectively.

Microsoft stated at the Worldwide Partner Confrence today that approximately 51 million PCs in their small and medium business markets are currently ready to deploy Windows 7.