Originally Posted by
ceiron
yeah and rumour is there will be a new os in 2009 so making vista pointless.
Well Vienna/Windows 7 isn't due for release until 2010 now at the earliest, which would tie Vista into Microsoft's lifecycle policy (5 years or 2 years from the release date of the successor, whichever is longer) and is generally consistent with their product release dates. Aside from Vista and Longhorn/Server 2008, which have both had protacted development periods, Microsoft tend to release a new OS every two to three years.
Vista is effectively pointless as it is. There's no advantage to using it over XP at the moment, and given that mainstream support for XP will run until 2009 there aren't any compelling reasons to upgrade. Worldwide market share for Vista is only around 5% at the moment, and I can't see adoption of it amongst enterprise users increasing dramatically until SP2 becomes available. Just over a quarter of enterprise users in a recent poll said that they wouldn't move to Vista at all, with 61% saying they would be waiting a long time before even thinking about it. The way it's going, I fully expect Vista to become a skip version.
