My entire hospital has Windows XP. Upgrading from XP in the medical community has been a challenge because of the many specialized applications that are wedded to Windows XP. It finally began changing in the last several years as vendors realized that time was running out on them.
There is a huge logistical tail involved. We have been trying for a few years to be able to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit in my department, simply because the memory benefits were huge to the radiologists...we were hogtied performance-wise due to the memory limitations of XP.
But there is a LOT of money that has to be thrown at it throughout the institution.
That's what I'm trying to tell people.
XP was a wonderful OS for its time, but its time is up.
how much testing did IT do before letting your dept use win7???