Microsoft is working hard to persuade corporate users to adopt Windows 7

On September 29, 2009, executives of Ford Motor Co., Continental Airlines Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., and Intel Corp., met with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer at an event in San Francisco to talk about introducing Windows 7 to its employees. Bloomberg reports:

Microsoft needs to generate interest among corporate customers for Windows 7, which goes on sale Oct. 22, after Windows Vista was adopted by relatively few during its almost three years on the market. Twenty-four percent of companies surveyed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said they will upgrade to Windows 7 in the first 12 to 18 months, and 67 percent plan to switch eventually, a higher rate than Vista achieved.

Already Starwood introduced Windows 7 on computers in Sheraton hotel lobbies and on HP touchscreen computers, installed in Sheraton hotels in seven cities including New York and Seattle. Five hundred employees of Intel are running Windows 7 on their computers. Ford is planning to move towards Windows 7 as it wants to offer better computer technology to its customers.