Report: Over 50% Of Businesses To Use Windows 7 By End of 2010

Let’s face it — Windows 7 is an absolute success. Poor reviews are challenging (but not impossible) to come back, whereas positive reviews on Microsoft’s latest operating system are seemingly everywhere. It certainly does seem as if the public is satisfied with Windows 7, after a couple of year in dealing with Windows Vista.

In fact, Windows 7 is so popular, a new report suggests that over half of all businesses will upgrade to Windows 7 by the end of this year [2010]. This is, according to statistics, a forty-two percent increase from the current sixteen percent of businesses already running Windows 7.

Fifty-eight percent of 928 businesses surveyed recently said that they intend to have at least one computer running Microsoft’s Windows 7 by the close of the year.

Currently, the lot of businesses worldwide are still running Windows XP, which originally made its debut in 2001. But it’s certainly not only businesses running the nine-year-old operating system. Households around the nation are also running Windows XP. This goes back to my ‘Digital Least Path of Resistance’ theory, which states that an end-user will utilize whatever is available — and if whatever is available works — you can bet they’re sticking with it for a good long while.

Windows 7 has become the fastest-selling operating system in history, with over ninety million licenses sold thus far. Microsoft projects that over 300 million licenses will be sold by the end of this year.

[ via Neowin ]