Microsoft's Chris Flores, a Director working on the Windows Client Communications Team, wrote on the Windows Vista blog that Forrester Research analyst Thomas Mendel's report on Windows Vista is schizophrenic. At a closer look, it seems that Microsoft is in full denial mode, or Mr. Flores at least.

One of the points he makes is that Mr. Mendel's report directly contradicts another Forrester report titled, Building the Business Case for Windows Vista, but it really doesn't. Mendel surveyed 50,000 enterprise users and found that fewer than one in 11 of PCs being used in big firms runs Vista now, whereas the earlier report, by Benjamin Gray, claims that by the end of this year, 7 percent of enterprises will start their deployments.

Flores also claims that the normal enterprise OS adoption cycle is slower. It is, just not that slow. The 180 millions of Vista copies that Microsoft claims it has sold is also another Redmond trick. The fact is that an unknown, presumably large, portion of these licenses have been converted to Windows XP. As it was already pointed out by several analysts, Microsoft does not differentiate between the users who use Vista as usual and those who, acquiring a Vista license with their computer, make use of their downgrade rights.

The fact is, Microsoft failed with Vista, for complex reasons which are not black and white. Meanwhile, the company tries to trick people into liking its latest operating system. It gathered up a group of on-record Vista detractors, then demoed them a new operating system called "Mojave." Allegedly, most participants were thrilled, only to discover at the end of the show that it was just plain-ol' Vista.

Intel will not upgrade to Vista for its about 80,000 employees. The company said that it has made the decision based on the feedback it got from its IT department, which said that it sees no reason to make the upgrade. Experts consider that it is normal for big companies to delay switching to the latest OS on the market, in order to wait and see if there are bugs so that they can purchase a safer version that the first one.

However, Vista’s release more than a year and a half ago should have convinced a lot more companies to adopt it, if only they saw any value in it. Apparently they did not, or are waiting for Windows Vista Service Pack 2, codenamed "Windows 7".