The IDC report estimated that the total job impact of Vista would be in the 1.8 million range over the course of 2007, but the majority of those jobs will be carryovers from earlier editions of Windows.

 

By Gregg Keizer
InformationWeek

 

Dec 11, 2006 04:32 PM

 

Microsoft's Windows Vista will give a 100,000-job "bounce" to U.S. IT employment next year, a study released Monday said.

The report, which was done by research firm IDC and commissioned by Microsoft, is similar to one published in September by IDC that claimed Vista would create 50,000 new jobs in Europe. Microsoft released that report in the midst of tense negotiations with the European Union's antitrust agency over possible infringements of a 2004 ruling by Vista.

 

"One of the reasons why we commissioned this [new] report was because of requests from our partners," says Mike Burk, a program manager with the Vista team. U.S. partners, he says, wanted data on the impact of Vista on the overall Microsoft ecosystem.

 

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