By Ina Fried, 11 December 2006 08:15
NEWS
A Microsoft-commissioned study estimates Windows Vista could create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the US.
The study, which was performed by IDC, also estimates that for every dollar of Vista-related revenue Microsoft takes in next year, $18 will be generated for the technology industry as a whole.
Brad Goldberg, a general manager in the Windows client unit, said: "The bottom line is that Windows Vista is creating jobs."
Microsoft commissioned a similar study for Europe that found the release of Vista could create 50,000 technology jobs in six major European countries.
Vista was released at the end of last month for businesses and goes on sale at retail stores and on new PCs in January.
Ina Fried writes for CNET News.com
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1. anonymous
This is just silly, Vista will cost money to the industry, and create a need for changing a lot of software. Normally such a thing is called costs, not benefits. This is money that is not going to new investments, not going to productivity nor salaries, not going to growth, but simply to the IT-firms for adapting software. It is strange to count costs as benefits, even if the service deliverer can employ more people.
2. anonymous
Is Vista so bad then that it needs all those people to cope with it?
3. anonymous
Yes. This is good news for IT. We have a least another 5 years work getting Vista to work properly! And even more Jobs to keep IT going.
4. Dick Rowley
As you haven't given any details of *why* Vista is supposed to generate all these jobs, are we left to suppose that it's because it'll be so difficult to use/fall over frequently/need a new PC installed? Not the sort of scenario one would expect when a new MS operating system is released at all....
5. anonymous
...that will all be farmed out to India...
6. Roger Ash
How strange that MS is is selling Vista to businesses by claiming it will increase efficiency and reduce costs, while simultaneously claiming it will create thousands of new IT jobs. Perhaps the new IT workers will be paying their employers for the privilege of working?
7. Roger Huffadine
'cos its going to be such a bitch of a system to install and manage. Everyone knows that computer technology is supposed to save money=jobs so for MS to sound off like this about the inefficiencies of its new OS is typically crazy and indicative of their insular stupidity.
8. anonymous
The only reason this will generate jobs is that the average user cannot use it.
How else will it generate jobs!
9. Simon
"... Windows Vista could create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the US"
Hmm, that could mean one of two things :
1) "Hey, we may be monopolistic baddies, but look how we can spin some good news"
or
2) Is it really THAT hard to use !
10. Eur Ing Christopher Thoday
Unfortunately, the government will likely believe this nonsense. Don't forget that Bill Gates is an advisor to Gordon Brown on "globalisation".
11. anonymous
Shame on the above readers, who cant see benefits of IT evolution, new systems, growth of market, more intergration of IT systems within our daily lives, looks like knocking down for knocking down state. if there is 1.25 million IT professioals in the UK then a 6th of that 50,000 jobs will be most welcome as a increase in the working market, I wonder how many of those people use Windows now and cant use Linux. Too many critics in the world today, embrace the future no matter whether linux, unix, or windows, were going to use all of them anyway its called healthy competition that only makes us excel and advance further.!
12. misceng
Of course Microsoft will claim that Linux still has a higher total cost of operation despite the fact that having saturated the market and had many many years to sort out Windows their latest effort will require an army of new IT staff just to get it working.