Enterprise upgrades increase the use of Win 7

According to the latest reports from the Market Research institute Forrester. With the introduction of new operating systems, Office software, browsers, and applications. Windows 7 has a development environment, while IE browsers face new challenges.
Forrester predicts that IT managers will start a massive enterprise PC update and replacement in the late 2010. IT managers will then launch a new upgrade strategy to test applications and try customer virtualization. This helps drive enterprise upgrades and use of the Windows 7 operating system.

The Forrester report also highlights the rapid deployment of Windows 7. According to a Forrester survey of 2,500 companies around the world, Windows 7, released October 22, 2009, is now deployed in 7.4% of corporate PCs, a level that Windows Vista did not reach after a year of release.

From the second quarter of 2009, 2010 of Forrester's 81,000 corporate customers, Windows 7, grew from 0% to 7.4%, while Windows XP grew by 7% per cent to 74.8%;windows Vista usage is maintained at 12.6% levels.

IE faces severe challenges

The development of Microsoft IE browser will face more severe challenges. Although IE still occupies 72.5% per cent of corporate market share, its market share has fallen by nearly 5% a year. The main reason is that the enterprise abandoned the default IE6 when replacing the Windows XP operating system, and then chose Firefox or Chrome browser instead of using IE8.

In Forrester's corporate customers, ie browser usage is declining, and Firefox browser usage is up 3%, to 20%; Google Chrome browser usage rose 4.6% to 6.9%; the use of Apple's Safari browser slipped by 1%, Slipped to 0.44%.

Forrester believes that the reason for the increasing use of Firefox browser is that "unlike IE, Firefox users quickly upgraded to use the new version, of which 17.6% of corporate users use Firefox 3.5 version, 2.1% of people use Firefox 3.0 version, only less than 1% of people use Firefox 2.0 version." ”

With respect to Chrome browsers, Forrester expects the browser to continue to grow in the corporate market because of the popularity of netbooks and other products, as well as the increasing knowledge of European users of browsers other than IE after Microsoft's reconciliation with the European Union.

Forrester recommends that IT managers who plan to upgrade their Windows 7 systems to ensure that the network application is compatible with IE8 browsers because IE8 is a required browser for Windows 7 systems. Forrester also recommends that enterprises that plan to upgrade Windows 7 to use virtual software to ensure that IE6 and older versions of Office software do not conflict with other applications.