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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. I'll deploy Win7 by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When XP support ends in 2014. By then, Win7 will have been shaken out.

    1. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Promises?! Here in Kang's tiberium mine, we prefer to call them "obamas". Kodos 2012!

    2. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by value_added · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I love that optimism man, I guess you one of the guys that still vote for politicians on the basis of the promises they give!

      Excellent analogy, but for a slightly different reason.

      By the time we recognise that the current elected official sucks, there's an election right around the corner. That election not only offer promises of the new, but also allows us to forget the failures of the past.

      The trouble with Microsoft is that we end up electing the same guy every time.

    3. Re:I'll deploy Win7 by infolation · · Score: 5, Insightful

      we don't see any point in replacing the existing OS considering the time and costs involved.

      The summary implies 59.3% not using Win7 by end 2010. But if 40.7% are using it by then, that would be a spectacular takeup.

      The time and cost to replace existing installations with Win7 decrease over time. When total cost of deployment is less than the savings resulting from the use of Win7, a company will switch. The article is simply quantifying the date at which 40% estimate this will happen.

  2. So in 3 months by Norsefire · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's gone from 83% that won't to 59.3%.

    Based on that, if MS wait nine months there will be people buying two copies.

    1. Re:So in 3 months by falckon · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

    2. Re:So in 3 months by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      t's gone from 83% that won't to 59.3%.

      Based on that, if MS wait nine months there will be people buying two copies.

      We get stories like this every time MS releases a new OS. There are the occasional flops like Windows ME and Vista that don't see widespread enterprise deployment but despite the universal predictions of doom you get each time most of them actually do end up being widely used in businesses. Examples include: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, I remember all sorts of columnists, bloggers and other speculators crawling out of the woodwork and predicting businesses wouldn't use them. Particularly Windows 2000 and Windows XP who turned out to be widely used regardless.

  3. 6 in 10? by lisabeeren · · Score: 5, Funny

    6 in 10? not a very big sample!

  4. Still using IE6 by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We still have IE6 installed by default at work. The reason we haven't upgraded is because it'd break some of the applications and they don't want the headache of having to retest the application (that's the excuse anyway), so we're stuck with it.

    I expect we won't be moving to Windows 7 any time soon either, XP works fine and not only would they have to spend money on the upgrade, but they'd have to re-train everyone.

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  5. Re:I wouldnt make plans to deploy it either by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am still waiting for what Microsoft Promised me for Windows 95.

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  6. Talk about a misleading title by gambit3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Have No current Plans" != "Won't Deploy"

    Two years ago, my company had "No Current Plans" to move our MS Applications to their 2007 versions, but here we are, with Office/Exchange/Sharepoint all 2007.

    "No Current Plans" may just mean just that... they don't have any plans. That's a far stretch from "we won't".

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    1. Re:Talk about a misleading title by Iftekhar25 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Mod parent up.

      This survey means absolutely nothing. It was taken before Microsoft announced a release date, and that means it's no longer relevant.

      Considering that, the number is quite strong.

      Windows 7 has a lot of mindshare as "Microsoft [finally] gets it right."

      I don't mind burning some karma here, but you gotta call it like you see it.

  7. Re:I wouldnt make plans to deploy it either by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You must be new here. When did MS delivering what it promises have anything to do whether management decides it's time for an "upgrade"?

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  8. 99.9% of businesses..... by heffrey · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, 99.9% of businesses have no plans to install Linux clients.

  9. Promises they will keep by PinkyDead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer promised me something a long time ago.

    And this is one delivery they won't miss.

    Affectionately yours,
    Satan.

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