Research firm Forrester says IT isn’t interested in Windows 8,
That is bull.
Windows 7 is already old in its life cycle and Windows 8 with HTML5 is a future platform as well as present. My firm has no choice but to go with 8 then adapt to IE11 when 8.1 comes out. Not just that we have no choice but the win8 Kernel runs MUCH better on all our platforms than XP.
I just got done moving 1800 workstations to Windows 7. It was a year and half project in total, from application upgrades/readiness to actual deployment. We don’t plan on upgrading to anything else anytime soon. :-)
Besides, Windows XP loses support in 2014 so I don’t anticapte the same thing happening to 7 anytime soon.