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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.)"
Wait, wait, wait. A Microsoft OS that installs by itself with no issues? You mean no more installing XP over and over again, trying to get it to work? Sign me up!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
As I recall, no sites had any plans to introduce 2000, as NT4 was 'quite adequate'.
Then it was XP, as 'no-one wants to buy new machines'.
The two hiccups - Windows ME (unsurprisingly), and Vista. And now here we are, with XP about to go (and more than showing it's age) - and somehow, managers not wanting to frighten chairmen with next years' costs has become a slashdot news article.
Which it would be, if I'd only been in the game for five years....please guys, you're supposed to be impressive, not tabloid-recyclers.
A non-Gay, cheap Mac?
I drank what? -- Socrates
I don't know that the bugs are all "ironed out". My wife just bought a brand new laptop that came with Vista SP1 installed (only copy of Vista running in house). It regularly corrupts network files simply by opening them. If an OS can't get the file system to work right, it is not worth having on a computer.
That said, we are hoping Windows 7 will at least get the basics right, and are planning on moving the laptop to it when we feel it is adequately stable.
I mentioned tinker-toys once in a post - now I'm modded down for life.
It sure as hell doesn't work like a dog on my HP Mini, and your assumptions only shit on MS's name more.
Go lurk moar and try out W7 on any basic system with 1GB of RAM, cause it runs flawlessly.