High Windows 7 satisfaction spurs corporate IT spending

From InfoWorld: Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said.

Part of the reason may be that 93 percent of the IT professionals polled said that their company is satisfied with the new operating system, a one percentage point increase over a similar survey in July.

The results of ChangeWave's November poll of more than 1,700 U.S. corporate IT buyers wasn't a total surprise. "Previous ChangeWave surveys found companies deferring their PC purchases in anticipation of Windows 7 ," said director of research Paul Carton and researcher Adam Golub in an entry to the ChangeWave blog Tuesday. "The latest results show the opposite now occurring."

Nearly one in five respondents said that Windows 7 is making their firm quicken the pace of their normal computer upgrade cycle over the next six months. While only 3 percent said that Microsoft's new operating system had caused "significant acceleration" of upgrade plans, 6 percent said it had had resulted in a "modest acceleration" and 10 percent said it had created a "slight acceleration."

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