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Microsoft may not be getting all it wants out of Windows 7, which is mainly for users to move on from XP. In a survey conducted by Dimensional Research, 83% of more than 1,100 IT Professionals said that their enterprise plans to skip the upgrade for the first year. This is on top of the fact that most large enterprises did not make the migration towards Vista either. The study notes that economical factors, as well as compatibility issues, seem to be the reasons that most of the companies are holding back. It doesn't look much better further down the road either, as only 42% said they would use Windows 7 within 12-24 moths of release, 24% within 24-36 months, and 17% longer than 36 months. Add this to the fact that Windows is losing market shares, 8% in the most recent quarter, and Windows 7 may not be the magic pill Microsoft was looking for.

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Comp Dude2 on April 13, 2009 10:31AM What more do people want, Windows 7 sounds awesome and they cant stick will XP forever. Maybe it is just the economic problems that are making companies hold off from redoing their who setup. reply to this

BillyBuerger on April 13, 2009 12:48PM Probably because overall, vista and even windows 7 don't really give you much more than what businesses need. And XP has been fairly stable for many years now. If you need the fanciest/latest stuff like all the eye candy on your games, then yes, you'll want to upgrade to take advantage of that. But a basic office PC can get by just fine with hardware and software from 5+ years ago. Where's the incentive? How is Win7 going to make that better? The only thing that's gotten me excited about windows 7 is that they fixed some of the memory bloat of vista. reply to this

ClayMeow on April 13, 2009 12:50PM If MS expected anything more, they obviously don't understand how companies operate. The majority of companies didn't bypass the migration of Vista because "Vista's bad," but rather because of the insane cost involved in doing so. Buying licenses/software itself for 100+ PC's is costly enough, but then add on top of that possible hardware costs to upgrade aging machines, and it's more than many companies want to pay out when XP is working just fine for them. I use Vista on my work laptop, along with a few other people, but we haven't even thought about upgrading the whole company to Vista because we just can't afford to do that right now. Win7 doesn't change that in the slightest. reply to this

d3bruts1d on April 14, 2009 03:36AM Clay hit the nail on the head. The company I work at has 2,000+ employees and just as many contractors. We've probably got a good 5,000 computers, most of which are 4+ year old Dell systems with a 1.8GHz P4 processor and 512M memory. Vista simply wont run on these systems, and the cost of upgrading the hardware to reasonable levels would be insane, especially once you cover the cost of having union (grrr) employees do the hardware upgrades. Sure, it'd probably be cheaper to buy new systems with Vista installed... but then you still have to train everyone on Vista (aging workforce that barley gets by with XP) and then comes the upgrade of the security policies and practices. reply to this

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