Probably forced to by their s/w contracts.
Ping to what is probably a bogus survey. . . no business moves that fast on a new OS. . .
link to actual survey conclusions with LOTS of cartoonist pictures, graphs, bar charts, pie charts, etc. and essentially NO description of survey methodology.
One tidbit though is that the sample size of 500 “IT Pros” was for a WORLDWIDE survey, not just U.S. Also, I wonder what an “IT Pro” is: CIOS, just some guys in bars, friends, co-workers, cab drivers, relatives or what exactly?
The whole “survey” is childish and ridiculous. Somehow I don’t think “spiceworks” is exactly going to give Gartner a run for their money.
This speaks a lot about how the IT world hates windows 8.
Wow.
Who on earth did they survey?
I’m a silly valley tech exec, and we have about a 5% penetration rate of *any* Windows OS. It’s all OSX and Linux - because those work. The only people who use Windows have to, because the parent company (Merck) use Office 360. Which is nasty, btw.
Big corps play a different game, I guess.