Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista

Barence writes "IT analyst firm Gartner has told businesses to skip Vista and prepare to roll out Windows 7. Companies have traditionally been advised to wait until the first Service Pack of an operating system arrives before considering migration. However, Gartner is urging organisations that aren't already midway through Vista deployments to give the much-maligned operating system a miss. 'Preparing for Vista will require the same amount of effort as preparing for Windows 7, so at this point, targeting Windows 7 would add less than six months to the schedule and would result in a plan that is more politically palatable, better for users, and results in greater longevity.' Even businesses that are midway through planning a Vista migration are urged to consider scrapping the deployment. 'Consider switching to Windows 7 if it would delay deployment by six months or less.'"

Comments

Re:Insightful analysis... four years late.

[Hurricane78]

Well... I think th "swimming in money" aspect is already way smaller than it was, and I also think that Microsoft is already preparing for the moment when it will be gone. Which certainly will happen when Win7 fails.

*hopes this will happen*

Ahem

[furbearntrout]

Keep on walking (just sayin.)
Isn't Gartner part of MSFT's marketing division anyway?

Re:Gartner

[Mad Leper]

Rather typical, instead of offering counterpoints to support Linux, they instead make baseless accusations of bribery and arm twisting on the part of Microsoft.

It's childish and petty, and rather typical of the replies I see on Slashdot whenever some group or organizations failure to embrace Linux is reported.

Re:Emperor wears a Thong

[Rockoon]

Reviewers who do performance evaluations of operating systems are (A) retarded and believe in it, (B) pitching their review to retarded people who believe in it, or (C) both.

You are proving that the "reviewers" that you have read are in group (B) or (C), and that makes you retarded.

Mod me down, I don't give a fuck. The poster I am replying to is stupid and reaching for anything anti-microsoft no matter how irrational that thing is. Performance evaluation of an OS indeed.. you modded up a flaminmg retard and that makes the modders flaming retards TOO.