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Yes. It is inevitable that businesses will eventually move to Windows Vista. It happens with every new OS that is released. If this were not true then businesses would be using Windows 3.1. The question is when. Now there are many different reasons for why businesses do not immediately move to the newest operating season. The main reason is legacy applications. These are applications that are written specifically for a certain business. When these are written they are obviously written for the current operating system at the time. For this reason many companies are using legacy applications that are only compatible with Windows XP. These applications are critical to the everyday operations of the company and thus must continue to work. The second reason that companies are slow to move to new OS's is the unreliability of them. Since all companies work in a production environment, time is money. They cannot afford to have any unnecessary downtime because of the OS. This is not to say that Vista is necessarily buggy, but it does have its problems. Also many businesses do not like having to give individual rollouts of updates on new systems. For this reason, they often wait until Service Packs are released. Most Service Packs produced by Microsoft are just a roll-up of updates that can all be installed at once, instead of manually having to install all the hot-fixes since the release of Vista. This makes it very easy for businesses to rollout the new OS. Microsoft has just released Service Pack 1 for Vista in the last month. This being so, many businesses will start testing on the OS to make sure that is fits their needs. We should see many businesses starting to use Vista in the following months. Another thing to look at when discussing the issue of businesses and new OS's is to look at the past. When Windows XP came out the reaction to it was very similar in the business world. It took most companies many months, if not a year to deploy the new OS. Businesses being slow to react to change is inevitable as their situation demands it. Lastly, in closing, Windows Vista may in fact be a unique situation. It is possible that some businesses will skip Windows Vista, because of its many complaints, and move directly to Windows 7 when it is released. This is possible, but highly unlikely

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