Brendan Major, IT director at the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), is concerned about the stability of the OS, and said: "We have no plans to migrate to Windows 2000.
Dell does not have sufficient manufacturing capacity to serve the whole market, so those who cannot get their hands on a Dell in Q4 02 may wait until 2003 rather than buy a PDA from another manufacturer.
But if you're on XP, then you can take it much more leisurely; you can wait till Vista ships and then migrate through hardware attrition or through a big bang upgrade or even wait for point release in mid-2008 which should have WinFS.
If a company's cover is about to expire it may elect to upgrade to Vista through Software Assurance while it still can, rather than wait and pay for it later. When would be best to migrate? How are you going to migrate?
Frank Foxall, CEO of Camwood - which, among other things, helps companies migrate operating systems - told silicon.com: "In the first year, I don't think it's [take-up] anywhere near where Microsoft wanted it.
Vista not until 2011, unless there is a good reason to migrate, by which time the next OS may be out so we would then skip a generation. It could be a long wait. Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows...