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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.
Wow. That's brilliant! Are you in marketing? *smirk*
Dang, looks like you struck a nerve! How's that hopey-changey thing working out for you, folks? I just read that the State Department is exempting foreign diplomats from paying property taxes in NYC. Meanwhile, we're talking about taxing your health care benefits to give health care to people who don't even work and therefore contribute nothing to society. Once again, the super-rich take care of the super-rich, and give everyone else the finger. Not much seems to have changed from where I'm sitting. The same goons still hate America, we've alienated traditional allies like England and Germany, we're still printing money out of thin air, only now Russia and China are pushing for a global currency to replace the dollar. Obama was very timid about initially supporting the protesters in Iran, yet he has quick to denounce the perfectly legal action the Honduran Congress took to prevent Zayala from pulling a Hugo Chavez on his people and making himself king for life. We're still trending towards a bloated, centralized government run amok, trampling your individual liberties and micromanaging every aspect of your life from what kind of car you're allowed to drive, to how much electricity you're allowed to use, even to how much money you're allowed to make. The cage gets smaller every year, and yet somehow the parent post is trolling. You all are a bunch of ignorant, hapless shep, and I blame your slothfulness and inattention to detail for this country's current state of affairs.
sorry, you must have mistaken this for the FOX forums. Stay on topic next time Sparky.
Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
(Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)
Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary [youtube.com]
Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says [bloomberg.com]
Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds [reuters.com]
The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass [dailybail.com]
China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar [bloomberg.com]
China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency [bbc.co.uk]
What are the reserve currencies? [wsj.net]
Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors [ml-implode.com]
Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people' [telegraph.co.uk]
Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats [examiner.com]
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers [cnbc.com]
A False Choice [viewfromsi...valley.com]
Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com [ajc.com]
Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands [alternet.org]
Socialising and Privatising [freeradical.co.nz]
Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses [politico.com]
Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply [researchrecap.com]
Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund [ft.com]
- Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read. [en.rian.ru]
- President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organizati
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.
As opposed to the substantially 99% who have no plans to deploy desktop Linux ever. Great point.