Microsoft Windows Vista has become a seasoned product, age-wise that is but when brought into the light of usage, the XP operating system continues to rule the client side PC market, with several companies getting into the new Windows 7, like its predecessor.

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.