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83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the count-me-in dept.

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.

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  1. re: XP to Windows 7 requires clean install by eos3fan · · Score: 0, Troll

    No problem! Microsoft can just bundle a lacie external drive with each seat licensed to store and restore users' files! Problem solved! I wonder if Doom will play on Windows 7 ....

  2. Re:xp does the job well by spydabyte · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because XP will stop being supported with the release of Windows 7. Then all the internal unfixed bug sheets of XP will be reported and published in China, Russia, and wherever Conficker came from. Then Microsoft will stop pushing all new copies of XP and accidentally invalidate all "genuine" XP keys.

    I'd say that's a pretty good reason to "upgrade".

  3. Re:xp does the job well by rubycodez · · Score: 0, Troll

    KDE was a terrible mistake, but it was no big deal because I tossed that shit into /dev/null and installed a working competing window manager. No need to stay at 8.04. Maybe someday the KDE unfutz their garbage, but no biggie if they don't