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For all of Microsoft's positive talk, the Vista operating system has failed to catch on with business users. One indication that Microsoft itself realizes this is that there is already growing discussion of the presumed next version of Windows, Windows 7. Much of the information about Windows 7 comes from a blog (shipping-seven.blogspot.com) that may or may not be run by a Microsoft insider. As for Vista, its deficiencies are well known. It chews through system resources, breaks popular Windows applications, and its touted improved security is ineffectual. One industry observer, Michael Cherry, says 'I don't think Vista is as bad as Microsoft has convinced people it is,' but advises the firm to concentrate on discussing what its next release will do. While Bill Gates claims 100 million Vista users, sales have been largely to unsophisticated consumer-market customers who take whatever the box stores sell them. Corporate users, however, are avoiding Vista. Notably, businesses are more interested in the upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, with stability fixes and improved security, than they are in the much-ballyhooed pending release of Vista SP 1. With Vista, Microsoft appears to have missed its shot, and Windows XP will remain the business standard while corporate customers await the appearance of Windows 7.
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