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
Posted on 04/13/2009 7:00:03 PM PDT by dayglored
New data shows that the vast majority of corporate IT departments won't touch Microsoft's next OS until at least 2011.
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) may need to keep its Windows XP operating system around a little longer -- at least for its deep-pocketed corporate customers....
The survey, of more than 1,100 IT professionals, is one of the first extensive looks at Windows 7's early sales prospects. It found that a whopping 83% of enterprises plan to skip the OS in its first year.
While the business market typically tends toward caution when it comes to new products, the figure is nonetheless surprising given that almost no large companies migrated to Vista and as a result most have been using XP much longer than planned.
"The majority of participants do not plan to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year. Economic factors are contributing to the delay in Windows 7 adoption for almost half of all participants. Software compatibility is the most frequently cited concern with Windows 7," notes the study,...
The news for Microsoft doesn't get much better in Windows 7's sophomore season. Fewer than half of the IT pros surveyed, 42%, said their organizations planned to deploy Windows 7 within 12 to 24 months of release, 24% said they would wait 24 to 36 months, and 17% said they would wait more than 36 months to migrate to Windows 7.
Widespread failure by corporations to embrace Windows 7 could cause problems on a number of fronts....
(Excerpt) Read more at informationweek.com ...
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?
Tech pings, please?
If Soros’-Handpuppet-In-Chief gets his wish, 83% of businesses won't exist next year.
Of course, a huge number of home users will be on Win7 next year. This is about BUSINESSES.
Well, yeah, there is that little problem, isn't there....
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
It’s like System 7, but for Windows.
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.
Yep, agree completely. Been burned, don't like it.
I’d love to upgrade my laptop.
From Vista to XP.
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.
If they keep the DRM BS in 7, I won’t “upgrade” to it at all.
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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