Microsoft’s state of Vista: The first 100 days
Microsoft is making a concerted effort to counter the perception by many in the industry that Windows Vista is floundering, 100 days after launch.
On May 8, company officials shared (via a phone call) new data on the Vista “ecosystem” to prove the company’s contention that Vista is more market-ready than any previous version of Windows. Courtesy of Dave Wascha, director of partner platform marketing, here are Microsoft’s latest compatibility statistics, based on the first 100 days of product availability:
* There are now 1.9 million devices certified to work with Vista, up from the 1.5 million that were certified on January 30, the day the product launched. Microsoft believes it has Vista support for 96 percent of all the devices for which users are seeking support.
* Of the remaining group of devices that still don’t work right with Vista, 4,000 devices are accounting for 85 percent of the compatibility/reliability/manageability/performance issues that customers are having with Vista, Wascha said. (Microsoft maintains a 4,000-row spreadsheet detailing any devices for which the company has received more than 500 problem reports, Wascha said. “We’re chasing the long tail of the ecosystem,” he joked.)
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