Rose-Colored Windows
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Microsoft has been releasing Economic Impact studies on the effects of Vista in various metros and regions, but the vista appears too rosy. The eight reports (one on Illinois was announced Feb. 12, but unavailable as of publication), commissioned by Redmond and performed by IDC, divine a significant surge in IT employment and revenue to local IT firms during the first year of the operating system's release, such as 7,150 new jobs in Florida and $3.5 billion in IT spending in the Washington, D.C., (Dulles Corridor) area. All this seems a little optimistic for an operating system that a significant number of VARs, IT pros and MSPs have said they have no intention of touching for six months to a year. Additional studies released to date: |
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Comments (6)
Tell a lie enough times and people start to believe it. Another one is that if you publish lies as fact, the naive will believe it. So Get The Facts the One Microsoft Way way.
This is obviously part of Microsofts multi-million dollar marketing campaign to get the neophytes to think they need MS Windows Vista. And if business people look at this, it should be a sign that MS Windows Vista is going to cost them alot of extra money. Even more than the current versions of MS Windows costs them.
Posted by barney yates | February 13, 2007 12:36 PM
I think VARs are missing the boat if they wait six months or more to help their customers make this transition. Vista is going to happen. Their customers will find another VAR to help them. The customers most likely to wait view IT as a grudging necessity. Early adopters embrace IT to enhance productivity and help grow their business. Which customers do you want?
Dave
Posted by Dave C | February 13, 2007 2:24 PM
IT people see it as a windfall. My business customers view it as a black hole.
Consumers view vista as a problem because they have to upgrade a PC to accommodate this piece of software. One of my clients is sitting on 500+ desktops at one site. For the first time, he has a team looking at converting a portion of his system to a different os base.
So far everything MS does is seen as inevitable. MS sounds positively Bushian in their arrogance foresight. Not a problem as long as they can do it.
Posted by Sam | February 13, 2007 3:54 PM
Gotta love the IT world. $70B "US windfall" will yield what return (ROI) for the buyers? You pay because you have to pay without any real immediate, discernable benefit - is it any wonder that customers are balking instead of dolefully lining up to be fed their mandatory IT upgrades?
Posted by E | February 13, 2007 4:32 PM
Though I have some serious doubts about the projected uptake of VISTA seen in these studies there is a metric I believe is being missed.
The billions in projected IT revenues represent costs of the same magnitude for customer organizations, and the real return benefits are .....???
Posted by Don Kelly | February 14, 2007 12:59 PM
Not only is it going to cost biz momey upgrading thier OS, it will also cost in new hardware and new software. This will lead to further increase in U.S. excess overhead. Smart companies will switch to Linux and never look back. No new hardware needed, no licencing costs, just all gain!
Posted by Ira Hyman | February 17, 2007 4:15 PM