New York’s IT industry is expected to experience a significant financial impact as a result of the launch of the Windows Vista™ operating system. According to a research study recently completed by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft Corp., within the first year of the Windows Vista shipment, New York’s IT industry will begin seeing considerable increases in new jobs and revenue. The study’s findings indicate that Windows Vista will provide a foundation for the IT market, with more than 17 percent of total IT employment in New York related to Windows Vista. In addition, total Windows®-related employment in New York is expected to jump by more than 16,000 new jobs.
Windows Vista, together with the 2007 Microsoft® Office system, was made available on Nov. 30 to Volume Licensing customers and will be broadly available on Jan. 30.
“Windows Vista will create additional revenues for Microsoft in New York, but will also create even bigger economic ripples throughout the ecosystem that sells products and services in New York that run on or work with it,” said John Gantz, chief research officer and senior vice president of IDC. “Windows Vista’s footprint in the state will be wide, as original equipment manufacturers sell PCs that run on it, software companies sell applications that run it, and services and distribution firms deliver, install, support and train on it. We expect that in the first year of Windows Vista shipments, this ecosystem will sell more than $7 billion of Windows Vista-related products and services in New York.”
View: Microsoft Press Release
Windows Vista, together with the 2007 Microsoft® Office system, was made available on Nov. 30 to Volume Licensing customers and will be broadly available on Jan. 30.
“Windows Vista will create additional revenues for Microsoft in New York, but will also create even bigger economic ripples throughout the ecosystem that sells products and services in New York that run on or work with it,” said John Gantz, chief research officer and senior vice president of IDC. “Windows Vista’s footprint in the state will be wide, as original equipment manufacturers sell PCs that run on it, software companies sell applications that run it, and services and distribution firms deliver, install, support and train on it. We expect that in the first year of Windows Vista shipments, this ecosystem will sell more than $7 billion of Windows Vista-related products and services in New York.”
View: Microsoft Press Release
Vista will definitely surpass this number in the coming 1-2 years.
Great news!
Never said it wouldn't be a winner, but the price point in which the software is being sold will make current Computer users who want to use their hardware think twice before switching over!
With Vista, some people's older computers may not meet the requirements, plus XP is already very functional and stable. So it is not like the situation of a 9x to XP (on NT technology) that it was back then. Individual consumers may be more likely to wait and get it preinstalled on a new PC.
This is my base point on how windows is a benefit to all economies in the world,something that as far i understand doesent get near with open source software (considering that there are companies who sell also their product based on linux ).So this is only in the NY IT industry,can you imagine the impact in U.S and around the world?
Just my 2 cents.
Last edited by EduardValencia on 17 Jan 2007 - 22:37
Ah, the question of the year. Impossible to answer though. Millions, maybe billions? Who knows how many people worked on it and how long? How much do they get paid? Obviously burning it to a DVD and making a box for it could cost upwards of $20 million, depending how many they make though. And that's the cheap part.
It's been reported that it cost 5+ billion. The majority of that cost is because of project mismanagement at MS.
whats vista offer? ... more or less the same crap as XP but with a different interface with more bloat.... although it's a matter of time before vista becomes the "standard"
besides who really pays for windows anyways?... it's WAY overpriced.
your right, i have not tried it yet... but for real, dont i have some legit arguments? ... about how it's basically more bloated (more of a memory hog) and it dont really offer anything significant over WinXP... right?
dont get me wrong i like "Windows in general" quite a bit as it's pretty much the standard of pc's etc etc etc
also... whats the system memory requirements anyways? .... cause from what i heard u need 1GB minimum for it to run good ... also, i dont know if this is true as im just speculating... but, is 1GB of ram to vista as 512MB of ram is to winxp? ... if thats true thats quite a bit of memory increase for basically a version of windows thats really just same stuff as xp is overall.... cause like i said this is the first time that when u get another version of windows it aint a big leap (not counting windows 98 to windows me).
your right, i have not tried it yet... but for real, dont i have some legit arguments? ... about how it's basically more bloated (more of a memory hog) and it dont really offer anything significant over WinXP... right?
dont get me wrong i like "Windows in general" quite a bit as it's pretty much the standard of pc's etc etc etc
also... whats the system memory requirements anyways? .... cause from what i heard u need 1GB minimum for it to run good ... also, i dont know if this is true as im just speculating... but, is 1GB of ram to vista as 512MB of ram is to winxp? ... if thats true thats quite a bit of memory increase for basically a version of windows thats really just same stuff as xp is overall.... cause like i said this is the first time that when u get another version of windows it aint a big leap (not counting windows 98 to windows me).
Try it and you will see. I am sure you will change your mind.
Even WinXP requires 1GB to run good. Vista is more efficient and fast. No more Not Responding and Crash crap... I tried it and loved it so much. To normal user, they just can see the UI and same stuff and eye candy only. However, underlying Vista, there are tremendous new technologies that helps you better sharing files, networking, and security.
the upgrade should cost alot less than 400
What does this have to do with Vista?
Nice PR from MS. NYC IT jobs are on the rise, so MS takes credit for it even though Vista is not the reason.
STOP LYING, MICROSOFT!
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