Businesses Won't Deploy Win7 Until 2011
Survey data has revealed that an overwhelming percentage of businesses will not be embracing Windows 7 in the next year.
Computing enthusiasts, especially those who are using the beta, can’t wait to get their hands on final version of Windows 7, however the vast majority of IT professionals working for businesses appear to be holding off for at least a year before upgrading to the future of the operating system.
According to a survey of 1,142 IT professionals conducted by Dimension Research, 84 percent of respondents do not plan for a Windows 7 implementation within the next 12 months. One of the top reasons for the slow plan for adoption is Windows Vista’s reputation of being an IT nightmare. Admins are holding off to see how Windows 7 pans out, despite the overall positive feedback from beta testers.
“The research shows that despite the early enthusiasm for Windows 7, organizations are still wary about adoption, demonstrating what could be described as an even overly cautious approach,” said Diane Hagglund, senior research analyst for Dimensional Research and the survey’s author, according to ZDNet. “Negative public perception of Vista seems to have helped build this layer of distrust with Windows 7.”
The survey also revealed some other interesting points. 72 percent of admins were more concerned about upgrading to Windows 7 than staying with the eight-year-old Windows XP.
Perhaps the most interesting is that 50 percent responded that they were considering leaving the Windows platform altogether and seeking alternatives operating systems. 27 percent cited Mac OS X as the top alternative, with the remaining piece of the pie split between various forms of Linux such as Red Hat, Ubuntu and SUSE.
Since I work for the university, it just means that the next four years of my college career will be tough. Sure, the campus machines are all the same, but student machines I will have to work on could have XP, Vista, or Windows 7. Ugh.
Our company will be adopting Windows 7 rather quickly.
Of course, companies planning to switch to Vista and did not complete in time can just move right into Vista II, err I mean Windows 7.
Vista is the most annoying OS i have ever used, but it looks nice reminds me of Age of Conan and funcom's quality products.
I love that statement simply because half those enthusiasts will torrent the hacked copy, and the other half will continue to run windows XP because they don't want to pay 200 dollars for an operating system that doesn't work any better than XP does.
Apple needs to open OS X up to normal PC hardware, now is the time.
I find it hard to believe they're willing to rid themselves of their PC hardware base and invest (likely 2 or 3 times as much) in Mac hardware and software, which is far less compatible with other hardware than Vista is.
I've used the beta for 7, also, and it's very impressive. I'm considering replacing all my OSs with 7 (even machines with XP).
Do you think that will be any cheaper, or less pirated, if Apple does release it (which they won't, considering it won't run with half the hardware out there...)?
WinXP - Best OS EVER
Well, presumably the corporations would still have their old XP liscenses, so it's only a metter of re-installing XP onto the new machines.
Also, 95% of "business computing", i.e., writing reports, memos, machine control, inventory management, and such, can be performed fairly well on an 5 year old machine - Athlon 2500 w/ 1gb ram running WinXP. If more computing power is needed for things like engineering / content creation apps, they'd get a proper workstation for those specific users, instead of upgrading every machine to "modern" specs.
The price shouldn't be any different from a normal OSX. They're not holding off the release because of hardware support, but the fact that their hardware division would bankrupt almost instantly.
example: i have a customer that does land survey there software is custom costed $60,000 does not work in vista they don't want to pay another 60k to get it working with vista.
In my book less than 100% compatibility is bad.
Come on, you have to operate your HDD in DMA mode. PIO mode won't get you far regardless of hardware.
I guess you don't have to enable DMA manually nowadays... like you had to in Win 9x.
I do video/audio work as well as other stuff and my PC is not broke so why try and fix it ???