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Published on February 2nd, 2009, Ben Gray for Forrester Research shows that Enterprise deployment of Windows Vista is steadily moving forward throughout North America & Europe.  More interestingly, the report also clearly demonstrates that neither MacOS or Linux is making bigger in-roads with shares of 3% & 2% each in the Enterprise. 

A few bulleted highlights from the report:

• Windows Vista is “finally starting its much anticipated ramp-up in the enterprise”
  • 31% of ITDMs have already begun migration to Windows Vista
  • Nearly 10% of all PCs in enterprises run Windows Vista
  • There is considerable interest in Windows 7
• Window XP still powers 71% of enterprise PCs but will likely be replaced by Windows Vista during natural PC refresh cycle
• Windows 2000 is “fading fast” from enterprise landscape
• Mac OS X maintains its niche business status but there is more interest
  • 3% Mac OS X foothold in enterprise environments
  • Forrester anticipates that IT department interest in allowing employees to bring Mac-products  into the office (mainly iPhones) will “increasingly evolve to actual pilots later this year and beyond.”
• Linux adoption is flat at 2%, largely driven by Red Hat and Novell.

Some press coverages of the report:

• Vista to Make Enterprise Gains, Finally? 
  By Joe Wilcox/Microsoft Watch 
  http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/vista_to_make_enterprise_gains_finally.html
• Gamers, enterprises saying yes to Windows Vista
  By Eric Lai/Computerworld
  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=9127154&intsrc=hm_topic