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83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7
Olipro writes "Most enterprises stated they won't bother with Windows 7 for at least a year as they simply continue to distrust that compatibility issues won't occur with their mission-critical software ... The Million Dollar question will be whether the fact that XP upgrades to Windows 7 requires a clean install will prove to be Microsoft's undoing." I suspect that will change before they actually release the OS.
All the IT departments care about is that their lousy designed software works. Most IT departments in fact are completely incompetent so any statistic that might originate there is meaningless to me. Here's a little quote to illustrate: "You can't install Firefox, only Internet Explorer meets the company standards regarding security" -- Random ignorant IT guy
XP will be fased out and I don't see companies using the abandoned version that we call Vista(it's the truth!). Unless they want to get an illegal version or stick to their old licenses if they still have it. XP is old and MS is trying to obsolete it and since they have the monopoly on spreading Windows, companies will have no choice. We WILL switch to Windows 7 or you will be forced to choose a different OS like Mac OS or a GNU/Linux flavour(or a dying *BSD ;) )
Way to butcher the English language and fail at law. Owning exclusive rights to produce your own product is not a monopoly. The word "fased" does not exist, but the word "phased" does exist. MS is no different then any other company who chooses to discontinue offering services to an aging product. XP has been out for a long time and they would like to make new revenue sales. Windows 7 does offer many new features that XP does not. A company has the option of sticking around with XP and Office 2003 if they so choose, or they can upgrade.
I do not know how old you are, but assuming you are at least in your 20's do you not remember when MS went from Win98/NT to XP? Everyone bitched and moaned and now we have "Windows XP fanatics" who absolutely love XP. Vista was bad, but 7 seems great so far. I have been using it in Beta and have zero complaints. Then again I have been using Vista 64 Premium and Vista 32 Home (desktop/laptop respectively) and have no complaints.
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
2003 to 2009 is longer than any version of Ubuntu is supported. It's had a nice life. Shoot it in the head, and move on :-)
Yes, but does Ubuntu of 2009 run on the machine of 2003? How much does an Ubuntu upgrade cost? Can you hire somebody to fix bugs in your 2003 version of Ubuntu? Can you get "new" copies of your 2003 Ubuntu and install them on new machines? ...
ps, yes I know there was no Ubuntu in 2003.
It's called Wine you idiot.
Not even Microsoft can copyright an API for Christs sake.
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