Half Of North American Business PCs Can't Run Vista
Microsoft Not Worried
According to a Tuesday eWeek article, about half of all the business PCs in North America do not meet the requirements to run the new Microsoft Vista operating system. The article also informs readers that 94 percent of the PCs do not meet the requirements for Vista Premium edition.
Comparing this alarming statistic to that of the PCs that met Windows XP requirements, one can see a drastic difference. Nearly 71 percent of PCs in North America met the system requirements for Windows XP upon its release, according to the eWeek article.
Those who want to upgrade their systems to meet the requirements for Windows Vista, most likely have to upgrade their RAM.
The study behind this article surveyed over 470 organizations in the education, financial, health care and manufacturing sectors. These organizations provided the specs of over 112,000 desktops according to the article.
Some blame the computer companies of North America for the lack of hardware-ready computers. Either way, customers wishing to use Windows Vista will have to upgrade their systems, which will raise cost and possibly decrease sales for the operating system.
However, the article points out, the survey did reveal that over 25 percent of organizations suggested that they may wait up to two years to upgrade to Windows Vista. This may suggest that Vista’s sales were to be sluggish in the beginning regardless of computer readiness.
Microsoft, amidst the release of the survey, still estimates that 20 percent of PCs will be running Vista within the first year of release, double that of XP's expectations upon its release.
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