"Despite those troubles, Rob Meinhardt, cofounder and CEO of
KACE, believes that IT is moving more toward managing a
heterogeneous desktop environment, even to the point of giving
employees their choice of computer to use.
"I don't think in the future you are going to see homogeneity on
the Windows front anymore," Meinhardt said. "You are going to see
people running XP side-by-side with Vista. Now that's also true of
cross-platform to non-Windows platforms. You are going to see more
companies running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP side-by-side
with Macintosh.""
This article has more details, and the full report is
here--
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