is Vista falling flat?

[Dan Jenkins]

Chris Linstid wrote:
> Even discontinuing support for a version of Windows is not sufficient
> to kill it.  90% of the desktops at my company are still running
> Windows 2000.  We're slowly migrating over to Windows XP at the
> moment, but only with new systems.  We haven't been bothering with
> upgrading existing systems to XP.  I think this will be even more
> prevalent with transitions from XP --> Vista.
We still support about 150 Windows 95 stations, 350 Windows 98, 13 
MS-DOS 6.22, 5 Windows NT 4.0, 1 Windows NT 3.5, numerous Mac OS 9, and, 
until a few years ago, 1 multiuser CP/M station (out in the mountains of 
Turkey). Plus most clients still run Windows 2000. The remaining 
minority are Windows XP. No Vista at present and none planned for at 
least a year. (Business software incompatibilities primarily being the 
reason and no compelling ROI.) (Other than 2 teenage sons of CEOs who 
have Vista :-) (None of this counts the Linux systems we support.)

The only issue we've ever encountered with Windows beyond end-of-life is 
lack of security updates. As we have our own methods to isolate/protect 
such systems, that is fairly minor. We have only ever needed to call 
Microsoft support when the Windows XP activation fails on a reimaged 
system, so we've never had an end-of-life problem.