期刊名称：Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal
印刷版ISSN：1535-1556
电子版ISSN：1535-1556
出版年度：2009
卷号：25
期号：01
出版社：Organizational Systems Research Association
摘要：Microsoft’s Vista operating system has not been a big success, with many companies and individual users preferring to stay with the older Windows XP. Complaints about Vista include that it has too many pop-up warnings and messages, it is slow, it requires a lot of computer resources to run, it is incompatible with other software, it is confusing, and it has too many different versions (Pegoraro, 2009; Pogue, 2009). Last October Microsoft announced the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, dropping the brand name Vista from the Windows product (Markoff, 2008). Although reviews of the beta version of Windows 7 have been positive, many users and companies are reluctant to spend money on a new operating system (Pogue, 2009). A survey of 300 business chief information officers revealed that spending on desktop operating systems would be among the first expenditures to be put off in an economic downturn (Lohr, 2008).
