More than half (58 percent) of the companies that use technology from Microsoft, are persisting with Windows XP, compared to only 4 percent of Vista, according to research at Corporate IT Forum (TIF). TIF also found that 35 percent of organizations as “not interested” in Vista.

Operating System (OS) that most people like to count on or develop is XP, making a comparison of 12 percent of companies using XP with five percent of Vista. Several companies (30 percent) said they will consider and review the next Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, Vista (14 percent). In contrast, seven percent of companies said they are still in the operating system, Windows 2000 or 19 per cent stated that they are into replacing or “sunsetting” it.

In April, the study revealed that Vista had a low adoption rate throughout 2007, but a quarter of businesses stated for a possible upgrade to Vista in 2008. The main reason deemed behind slowed moving to Vista is lack of business need and requirements.

The current version of Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), is also facing a similar adoption struggle for recognition; with one fifth of respondents said they were not yet interested in the application.

Almost two thirds of the companies surveyed (65 percent) indicated that they had IE6 in operation, compared with four percent for IE7. However, 14 said that it is running Internet Explorer 7, the same proportion in isolation. Nearly a quarter (23 percent) said they analyze and investigate IE8, is currently in beta.

These stats show that either Microsoft has failed to ascertain the needs of its customers or they are hitting the market with a combination premature and over-mature products which either don’t fit well with the customers or with the hardware .. and sometimes with both.

Stable

Browser crashes are new to none. Google always seem to have realized the value of saving an email draft from getting vanished due to browser crash by enabling auto save in its Gmail application.

Faster

Google Chrome is always ready to listen to a click. Click it and it open in a blink which proves its minimal memory consumption and fast performance.

Secure

With its built-from-scratch release, Chrome already ensured security being new-to-world technology. There are warnings at every step to make sure that users enter the secure place at their own risks.

Clean

No extras! Google Chrome is clean and has all the space available for web pages. There’s no title bar, no status bar and no toolbars, just one tabs bar that also works as title bar and all of remaining space belongs to the page you’re opening.

Simple

With simplicity transferred straight from Google’s homepage Chrome delivers Google’s trademark simplicity and usability.

Efficient

Whether it’s opening or closing the tabs or opening heavy web applications, Google Chrome is efficient and puts everything in front right when ordered.

Open Source

Being an open source application, Chrome invites and accepts contribution from global community. So your feedback and contribution is welcome.

Multi-threading

Ever heard of a browser that based on multi-threading? Chrome is the one! With its threaded approach it resolves the issue of browser crashes by keeping heavy applications allocated in a separate thread so that it doesn’t affect overall browser functionality and performance.

Multi-processing

Every window and every tab of Chrome opens as a new process. If you see in task manager, every instance of Chrome, whether a tab or window has a separate process, with different processing and memory allocated to it, and if one process stops responding, it doesn’t affect other processes unlike in legacy browsers.

It didn’t take me more than a minute to click and download the toolbar. It took a while to install it, because, I suppose, because I didn’t have SilverLight installed and the toolbar is “Powered by SilverLight”. It was worth the wait though; I fell in love with the MSN Toolbar at first sight. It looked so glossy and pleasantly animated that it made the Google Toolbar look like the one from Stone Age. Have a look at the graphic below:

It makes Google toolbar so out of fashion, doesn’t it? And from all it looks it proves to be coming straight from Windows Live family. It fits so well with Windows Vista and IE and also with Windows Live services like Live Mail to make those services a pleasure to use.
Finally the weather feature looks so awesome, so useful and makes your day even brighter. It works in a way pretty similar to weather widget in Vista where user can change his desired weather location. Other toolbar functions, however, lack such customization. User can change the look and feel of the toolbar by changing colors scheme but there’s no feature like “custom buttons”. But it’s not much useful of features anyway.
Would’ve loved if they could introduce a website ranking meter like Google’s flagship PageRank to create some more fuss from nothing, for nothing, like folks at Google did! Keeping inventing Microsoft, you rock!