nsane.forums Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Beta testers of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 7 are four times more likely to be happy with what they're seeing than were early users of Windows Vista, a factor that's driving more than half the companies surveyed to dump Vista adoption plans, a market research company said.In a poll of corporate IT professionals conducted by ChangeWave Research, 44% of the 68 users testing Windows 7 said that they were "very satisfied" with the beta.A similar survey by ChangeWave in February 2007 -- just weeks after Vista's launch -- found just 10% of the respondents expressing the same level of satisfaction.The ChangeWave researchers who conducted the poll, Andy Golub and Mike Wrobel, said that those who are happy with Windows 7 cited the new operating system's improved performance as a big reason for their reaction. "Takes less memory and boots faster, and reminds me of a new XP," one IT professional told the researchers.In the same survey, Golub and Wrobel polled approximately 2,000 enterprise users responsible for IT purchases to find out their companies' current Windows plans. According to the poll, 53% said that their businesses are going to skip Vista altogether, and instead wait out the arrival of Windows 7. Only 15% said that their organizations would proceed with a Vista roll-out.About 1 in 7 -- 14% -- said that their companies were already deferring some PC and server purchases in anticipation of Windows 7."The Windows 7 beta has so far received a much warmer reception than Vista," noted Golub and Wrobel in their analysis last week. "Of course, beta testers tend to be hard-core techies and the ultimate test is how satisfaction holds up when mainstream users get their hands on the new software."Microsoft has not yet set a ship date for Windows 7, saying only that it would deliver the operating system by early 2010. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I can understand y they are loving it.I m using Win7 7057 Build on my corporate laptop in the n/w and am loving it.The corporate image of Vista can bring a Core2 Duo desktop to its knees.And I am running Win 7 on a AMD Turion X2 1.6GHz 900 Mb RAM laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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