Microsoft continues to publish revenue forecasts following the implementation of Vista. A part of the Microsoft study related to the impact of Windows Vista commissioned to IDC, reveals that the operating system will generate $2.5 billion in additional revenue for the New Jersey IT industry in 2007 alone.

The IDC study designed to predict the market impact of Vista concludes that during its first year on the market, the operating system will result in an increase in both new jobs and revenue.

"Windows Vista will create additional revenues for Microsoft in New Jersey, but will also create even bigger economic ripples throughout the ecosystem that sells products and services in New Jersey that run on or work with it," said John Gantz, chief research officer and senior vice president of IDC. "Windows Vista's footprint in the state will be wide, as original equipment manufacturers sell PCs that run on it, software companies sell applications that run it, and services and distribution firms deliver, install, support and train on it. We expect that in the first year of Windows Vista shipments, this ecosystem will sell more than $2.5 billion of Windows Vista-related products and services in New Jersey."

Windows Vista will drive up the total IT employment in New Jersey by 17% and will create another 5,000 Windows-related jobs. Microsoft and IDC forecast that for each Windows Vista-related revenue earned by the Redmond Company in 2007, the environment outside Microsoft would get $21 in revenue.

"Microsoft is proud to bring products to market that help infuse economic growth here in New Jersey," said Michael Robinson, New York Metro District general manager at Microsoft. "This launch is generating economic opportunities in New Jersey and across the nation by creating jobs, enabling organizational efficiencies and helping solve business challenges for our customers, partners and the IT industry as a whole."