"As soon as we identify a key new product, we like to be some kind of early adopter," said Sasfin's Olivier. Sasfin was part of Microsoft's TAP for Office 2007 -- though not for Vista - and plans to move forward even faster with Office than Vista.

Others are doing so merely to stay current with their peers. "I can tell you that we will deploy Vista in some of our desktops right away," said Russ Donnan, CIO at Kroll Factual Data Inc., a business information services provider in Loveland, Co. "The reason? Because some of our customers will."