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Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey
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.)"
You don't need a plan - it'll install itself automatically via windows update. And then automatically rat on you for piracy.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
6 in 10? not a very big sample!
I am still waiting for what Microsoft Promised me for Windows 95.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
By extrapolating, in two years people will be buying five copies. I guess Windows 7 will finally be the prize winning cash cow Microsoft has been dying to create!
Promises?! Here in Kang's tiberium mine, we prefer to call them "obamas". Kodos 2012!
No, but it runs XP.
Dear lovely Corporation,
Here's a new operating system for you. Awfully sorry about the whole Vista thing, won't happen again.
Love,
Bill and Steve.
Wait... just Steve now.
PS. The Windows 7 Corporate Mega Edition will come with a free chair.
Task Mangler
Actually, they're doing a pretty GOOD job. If you can convince 4 out of 10 of your customers to pay for an unnecessary update that nets them no benefit, I'd say that yes, your marketing department certainly did something right.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Does your company replace all the furniture every time Herman Miller comes out with a new line?
Of coarse!
AIG,INC
In other news, 99.9% of businesses have no plans to install Linux clients.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer promised me something a long time ago.
And this is one delivery they won't miss.
Affectionately yours,
Satan.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Nah, that's Ubuntu.
you are still using an O/S from 1980 then eh?
Problems get fixed over time, performance gets improved, bugs get patched.
This is not news.
DRM-free indie games for the PC and Mac: Positech Games
REAL VIRTUALITY, Seattle, Thursday 2099 -- Microsoft Corporation has announced a limited one-off extension of availability of its Windows XP operating system to April 2101 after criticism from large customers and analysts. This is the fifty-sixth extension of XP's availability since 2008.
Through successive releases of Microsoft's flagship Windows operating system, demand for XP has remained an important factor for businesses relying on stable XP-specific software and installations, who have pushed back strongly against the software company's attempts to move them to later versions. Windows administration skills have become rare in recent years and consultants have demanded high fees. Reviving Windows administrators from cryogenic freezing has proven insufficient to fill the market gap, as almost all begged to work on COBOL instead.
"Windows XP is currently in the extremely very prolonged super-extended support phase and Microsoft encourages customers to migrate to Windows for Neurons 2097 as soon as feasible," said William Gates V, CEO and great-grandson of the company founder. "Spare change?"
Microsoft Corporation, along with Monsanto Corporation and the RIAA, exists as a protected species in the Seattle Memorial Glass Crater Bad Ideas And Warnings To The Future National Park in north-west Washington on the radioactive remains of what was once the planet Earth, under the protection of our Linux-based superintelligent robot artificial intelligence overlords. Company revenues for 2098 were over $15.
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