Microsoft customers are walking -- not running -- toward implementing the software giant's new technologies and practices, according to a new IDC study. IDC surveyed over 300 IT managers known to be Windows NT or Windows 2000 users and uncovered responses to Licensing 6.0 terms, receptiveness to Windows XP and the Windows.Net server family, as well as adoption rates for Active Directory.
``Most Microsoft customers will continue to follow the Windows roadmap, with broad plans for Active Directory deployment. However, users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule,'' said Al Gillen, research manager for IDC's Operating Environments service.
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