Corporations are the primary customers, yes.
However, the MPAA and RIAA are most decidedly not.
Microsoft had the opportunity to tell the MPAA and RIAA to get stuffed - they would have sold just as many (if not more) copies of their operating system, regardless of how much pandering they did to those organisations.
This is why it's stupid - the people they need to convince to buy Vista are the large corporations.
Corporations will (in general) not buy software unless it is proven, and works with their existing stuff.
So when their IT dept says "Vista doesn't work with X,Y,Z", they won't buy it. They'll wait until support for XP is withdrawn, X,Y,Z works on Vista, or a replacement for X,Y,Z comes out that works.
I've already seen this with IE7 - it doesn't work for some of our software, therefore nobody in my company uses it.
Vista breaks some of our other software, so we won't use it for quite some time.
Unfortunately we'll have to adapt some of the software to Vista because some of our customers will end up using it, but that's going to be a long way down the line. |
