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Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year
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| Ar 13, 2009
| Paul McDougall
Posted on 04/13/2009 7:00:03 PM PDT by dayglored
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As Director of SysAdmin at my company, I've held fast with XP/SP3, and dodged the Vista bullet.
If Microsoft allowed an in-place upgrade to Win7, I'd consider it sooner.
But the fact that going to Win7 can only be done with a complete wipe and re-installation of all our deployed applications -- with a user base that's distributed all over the globe -- means "NO". I'm not ready to jump at the chance to bring my company to a screeching halt.
We develop software. We've got Macs and some Linux boxes in use, and run Unix as our network OS. But the vast majority of my users are on Windows XP, and will remain there for the foreseeable future.
What about you and yours?
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:00:03 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:00:25 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
“83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year”
If Soros’-Handpuppet-In-Chief gets his wish, 83% of businesses won't exist next year.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:02:10 PM PDT
by
decal
(Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval.")
To: dayglored
Of course, a huge number of home users will be on Win7 next year. This is about BUSINESSES.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:02:36 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: decal
>
If Soros-Handpuppet-In-Chief gets his wish, 83% of businesses won't exist next year. Well, yeah, there is that little problem, isn't there....
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:03:10 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
What about you and yours? The vast majority of our systems, about 2650 of them, are still running Windows 2000 Professional. We have fewer than 300 XP boxes, most of which are laptops. We publicly do NOT support Vista.
Mark
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:03:25 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: dayglored
Microsoft makes things bigger and more complicated. Programming has become more difficult.
Rather than bigger, fancier, slower people want smaller, simpler, faster OSes. Even simple users - the ones supposedly helped by the overly rich feature set - would be aided because of faster responses: they aren't clicking on something else before an operation completes and therefore increasing odds of an abend. If you doubt this, look at how many are sticking with Microsoft's best release, Windows XP.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:05:54 PM PDT
by
Lexinom
To: dayglored
I don’t touch a new MS OS till at least SP1 is released. I’d start playing with it on a test machine to get familiar with it, but thats it.
For personal or business use, I always wait for a SP1 type release. That usually marks the point when its ready for true evaluation to be run in a production environment.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:06:29 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(Trust unto God and He shall direct your path)
To: dayglored
We were forced to upgrade ALL of our PCs at our site to Vista. Don’t know if this was company wide. If it was, I work for a huge company.
A lot of the PCs were running 2K, some XP.
We subcontract our IT to a third party. I am convinced that it was all a way for them to make lots of bucks.
In a year of so, we be upgrading all of our PCs to Windows 7.
Yuck!
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:07:02 PM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: dayglored
The old wisdom about buying a GM car was not to buy one in its first model year. Eventually that led to many people not buying them at all.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:08:08 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: dayglored
Yeah it’s a shame in place installs aren’t allowed for Win 7 over XP but I think for a more stable OS environment Windows needs to do this.
Yeah I am going to be called a MS Bot, as usual, but I think Win7 is the best MS OS by far. It runs flawlessly on my AMD 3800+ 2 gig system and on my laptop I actually increase my battery life by 50% with wifi on.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:08:37 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
To: dayglored
As a Systems Engineer who gets to peek at and work within the IT environments of some of the big names in the Fortune 500, I don't see a lot of XP or Vista in the enterprise. Only on laptops used to VPN in remotely for sysadmin work. It is almost exclusively Win2k3. Some Win2k. And that ain't gonna change too dang quick. And certainly not on Microsoft's timetable.
Personally, I'm hanging on to XP SP3 until I can get my hands on Win2k8 Server. It has Hyper-V native and that bad boy ROCKS! It's so easy to use...when Win2k8 is deployed widely and Hyper-V catches on...VMWare is going to be in serious doo-doo.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:08:55 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Why the hell is the best damned dance song ever written titled, "Sing, Sing, Sing"?)
To: dayglored
It’s like System 7, but for Windows.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:09:53 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: aft_lizard
>
Yeah I am going to be called a MS Bot, as usual, but I think Win7 is the best MS OS by far. It may be -- and it SHOULD BE, after all, right? ;-)
The problem for Microsoft is that XP was the best for a damn long time, and it's still entirely fine for most of what businesses need to do.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:11:32 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Proud_USA_Republican
>
I dont touch a new MS OS till at least SP1 is released. Id start playing with it on a test machine to get familiar with it, but thats it. For personal or business use, I always wait for a SP1 type release. That usually marks the point when its ready for true evaluation to be run in a production environment. Yep, agree completely. Been burned, don't like it.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:12:23 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
I’d love to upgrade my laptop.
From Vista to XP.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:13:47 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: dayglored
Ever since SP1, Vista has been really nice. In fact if you want to run 64 bit, Vista really is the only way to go with Windows.
It’s a tough choice for business though. Going to Win Server 2008 is a big step, but that works best with Vista obviously. And I’d be wary of 7 until SP1 as well, so.. I can see a lot wanting to hold off.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:14:12 PM PDT
by
Tolsti2
To: dayglored
If they keep the DRM BS in 7, I won’t “upgrade” to it at all.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:14:41 PM PDT
by
mysterio
To: dayglored
Jeezus. What a nightmare. I do senior support for a
large financial interest in the Southeast, and a good quarter of their machines are still running W2K. On top of that, they have a half dozen different base XP images we have to burn onto the drive before we can even run the COE loader (there's another four dozen proprietary overlays in itself). Then there's the whole Sarbanes/Oxley legal hold red tape, and......*shudder*. No way in hell that many machines could be backed up with RoboCopy, reimaged, and restored with the scant amount of resources we're allotted. We all already put in 50 hours a week just to keep our heads above water. But, in my dozen years as a network admin/break-fix jockey/network tech/help desk monkey, I've learned never to say never. Some wholly unqualified moron with more leverage than sense will decide it's a good idea, and have the lot of us out until 11 PM every night for a month, trying to fix what didn't need fixed.
What the hell ever happened to the good old days when you could just tweak someone's account in the User Mangler, and maybe swap a 72-pin stick of SDRAM or restore someone's Solitaire shortcut? LMAO
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:14:53 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(FUBO. Just....................FUBO.)
To: dayglored
Windows 2000...Still works great.
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posted on
04/13/2009 7:15:22 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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