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Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey

Posted by kdawson on from the holding-on-to-yesterday dept.

angry tapir writes "Nearly six in 10 companies have no current plans to deploy Windows 7 by the end of next year, according to a new survey. Of 1,100 IT administrators who responded to the survey, 59.3 percent said they didn't have a plan to deploy Windows 7. (Full results, PDF.)"

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  1. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by COMON$ · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I call BS here, there are crazy good benefits to vista win7 the problem is until this last year or so there have been some major bugs that needed worked out. Of course most of you refuse to upgrade because the new thing either:

    A: Doesn't have enough shininess.

    B: Doesn't work like the old thing.

    C: Has benefits that you can't see in your limited world (security upgrades, improved network stacks, improved memory management)

    Now I fully admit the buggy nature of vista held me back at first. But now you can have it installed from the oem for the same price (if not less), and most of the bugs are ironed out (too late to save PR). Windows 7 has been showing a ton of promise to be a solid os, but to see no point in replacing XP just because of cost is just shortsighted asshattery.

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  2. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by Daengbo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Indeed. Compare this to XP:

    Nearly 18 months after it first shipped, businesses finally appear ready to embrace the Windows XP client operating system. Close to two-thirds of those polled-63 percent-said they would switch to Windows XP within the next 12 months. -- Yankee Group, The, Jan 2003

    To summarize, 40% of businesses have some kind of plan to switch to Windows 7 within a year from its launch (and the plan comes before the launch), while the Yankee survey showed that ~60% of businesses planned to switch before the 2 1/2-year mark. Heck, only 20% planned to switch to Windows 2003.

    As much as I want Windows 7 to be a flop in businesses the way Vista was, that doesn't seem likely to happen.

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  3. Re:I wouldnt make plans to deploy it either by Daengbo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    We have no current plans to deploy Windows 7 59.3%

    According this 59,3% will skip Windows 7 completely.

    Read it again. Not having a plan is not the same as planning not to do something, no matter how many times you've heard that "Failing to plan is planning to fail." ;)

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  4. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by poetmatt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why pay $200 when I can get something such as ubuntu for free? I'm sure I have plenty of options from major retailers if I was a dumbass consumer trying to buy a non windows OS right?

    If anything non-windows worked flawless for graphics people would be jumping ship faster than you can even theoreticize and never look back.

    Oh, whoops, it's bundled and shoved down people's throats. whoops.

  5. I'll deploy Win7 by limaxray · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.

  6. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by LaskoVortex · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nice to see you believe liberty includes the right to murder.

    So you'd rather spend money on health care than on war? Please elaborate.

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