Businesses Find That Win 7 Saves Time, Money

yeah I was actually really looking into our company adopting it... although it's still not awesome to make it run on P4's.... which is what my company uses as computers... interesting to see in the long term though.

This is funny since it looks and works esentially the same as vista

the longer you use windows 7 the slower it gets too

You could follow IBM's lead and switch to Ubuntu.

I just hope my college's computer labs running Pentium D / Core 2 machines will finally switch out of XP.

If only I could get my company to upgrade...

I'm on 7 since the beta came out. The boot time does deteriorate just like XP/Vista, but way slower. On XP you would have to do a fresh install every 8 to 12 months. On vista, every 15 to 18 months. On 7? Well, not so sure yet.
I've been on RTM since it came out (yes, I did use the 180 days trick) and I'm seeing the boot time increasing every time I change something on the software side. The more you play around the slower the system gets.
Overall? I'm pretty satisfied with Win7 because it's not as bulky as my Vista (notebook), it's as fast as it were when I was on XP (desktop) and 7 kept all the good things Vista had to offer (security wise).

Win7 will be out tomorrow but I'm still not buying. I need a family pack but we don't have it here in Brazil.

I was on Win 7 beta since january, and switched to RTM one month ago, the boot time dind't deteriorate at all, in any kind of way ... although I've picked up the habit of rebooting once about once a month, compared to XP.

And I do have plenty (a ton) of shit on my PC, ranging from development tools to media authoring tools like Photoshop, games, game utilities and allot more ...

It's what under the hood that make's windows 7 great compared to vista.

"group policy controls in Windows 7 to help better manage power use." our company already does something similar using XP... all the machines remotely shut-off at a certain time after work to ensure no-one leaves it on (which is a pain when you set a render goign and forget about this I can tell you...)

Windows 7 works better than previous windows operating systems.

But as with previous versions, if you fail to take proper care of your system, then it will slow down due to unwanted infections such as various types of Malware including possible RootKits or even worse, BootKits.

Take care of your system and you should have no problems with Windows 7.

It also helps to have plenty of system memory and to make sure you have enough drive space available so you don't run out of room for the page file.

Lets see.. IF you are a company of just simple means... 3yr rotation of gear is the typical norm. 3 years ago, core 2 was deployed. Win7 is not for the p3, the p4, even the athlon64, it is geared for multi core, 2GB or higher, and 2 years ago, 8gb of ram cost all of $140 (full reteail).. 8GB ram and a 1.866 core2=win7 working very, very nicely. The Aero (screen flipper) was a waste in my opnion, but the new aero, in which you hover over the taskbar icon of said app, just ROCKS..
The talk we have nowadays is reminiscent of win2000 --> XP days.. Either your company can afford it, OR NOT, boo hoo..

Not true! it cant be true! only Mac's can save time and money!!

*sarcastic*

OMG! Can it be that the Apple has fallen from the tree?

Oh well, you work with what ever you need for the job whether it be an Apple or a PC.

It will run fine on Pentium 4. I've seen it running perfectly fine on a Pentium 4 in an old-ass laptop.

If they switched to Ubuntu, they could save even more.

But heaven forbid we switch to Linux, it doesn't come with our beloved IE.

Let me start by saying that I have used Win 7 since the open beta and plan on converting permanently to Win 7 in a couple months.

That said, the "saving money" example is purely speculative and intentionally misleading. You can easily achieve the same power management in XP or Vista with group policy management. If there was a savings in $20000 in electricity per year, there would be NO WAY to quantify/pinpoint where exactly that savings came from especially across an enterprise environment. This numbers game is frequently played by management and is only lip service as they know they will not be held accountable for this savings if it can even be remembered.

On to the "saving time" argument. 80% improvement in boot up time over XP? Really? Need details here. Um, was this comparison based on an old computer with XP installed versus a new computer with Win 7 installed. The truth of the matter, on the same computer, XP is slightly faster than Win 7. Only by seconds. Other articles on Tom's support/acknowledge this.

Let's be clear about something with the Energizer CIO. He isn't seeing any kind of "radical change" different from XP. He's being "told" there's a change so his managers can justify expenditures in hardware they needed. XP installed on these new computers would boot at least, as fast as Win 7.

Screen management and taskbar whatsits?

Enegizer CIO, Randy Benz, WAKE UP! STOP LOOKING LIKE A TOOL! Can you even spell IT?

To the editor that let this "article" land anywhere on this usually reputable website, WAKE UP! People who visit this site actually know something about computers. This is a HACK JOB! You are not doing your regular visitors a service for letting this kind of tripe live here.

Marcus Yam, there is no relevant factual data contained in this so called article. Was this somehow supposed to inform or educate your readers in something? Was there any kind of purpose to actually writing this article. Rushed to meet a deadline and only had 5 minutes to hack something together?

Tom's, what's with this filler? Please don't allow Marcus to ever fill space again. I expect better from this site.

I guarantee in 6 months, everyone will be bitching and crying about how much Windows 7 sucks and how they're going to switch back to Vista/XP. It's what most people do whenever an operating system is released. I think this whole Windows 7 thing is overhyped.

ridiculous article with lot of broken chains .

unless "energiser" reperesents all businesses .

What businesses? The Microsoft business research and marketing unit??

The only reason to use adopt a new OS for me is only if you are replacing all of your hardware at that time.
Why would you waste your money for an OS upgrade if it doesn't really offer you anything?

So I've never owned a Mac so I'm not a Mac fanboy. But what Apple does is the right thing: a computer = hardware + OS. That's what they offer to you. In the IBM PC compatibles some company offers you some hardware, some company offers you a crappy OS and at the end you get... if you are lucky a working machine and if not a trouble until next replacement.
And Windows is so highly overpriced! And it is bad. It will always be bad. XP sux pretty much actually. The only reason why people say it is good is that Win 98 sucked so badly.

I wonder if Marcus cared to change a word from what the Marketing Department of Microsoft sent to be published here. This article was truly pathetic. Just PRETENDING it is anything but an advertisement is to insult our intelligence.

I do not understand the problem with the reboot time since I only reboot for updates. Otherwise my portable goes into sleep mode. After 2 months of usage I don't notice any difference in bootup time, I don't even get coffee when rebooting because the wait isn't lang enoug . Windows 7 is a gem.

Ur clueless on every point you just stated.

@This is Tripe : Hahahahaha..... give him a break. He tried to appear neutral, but instead he gave us another bias news.

I seriously doubt this post!
I have no doubt that Win7 will be an improvement over Vista, but the majority of companies are still with XP!
Compared to XP, only very little gain (if any at all, and/or if not loss) of productivity and money is being noticed!
Yes, it may have better power saving feats, but it takes much more energy to run 7 than to run XP.

They say XP is a dying OS, yes, but still today the majority of businesses have XP, and we're what? 9 years after it's initial release?
Only a small part of small businesses, have migrated to Vista.
In most of the cases it are businesses that had no other choice because their suppliers could not get anything else, or did not want to pay the premium for downgrading.

Um.... sure this like reading clips from my local newspaper.

Yes windows 7 boots up fast, i have yet to see a major slowdown maybe lost a few seconds over the few months of having the RTM.

I just like the fact it has all the drivers for everything I have including the ones I couldn't get anymore from the manufacturer.

And to the guy who said ubuntu... um yeah no directx support and no major game support... so yeah I'll stick with windows.

Funny to see how much misinformation is on the net these days.

I have worked on a tablet pc for the last 4 days. Guess what? No Windows 7 drivers! So there is no way I can install the driver for the so called PCI memory interface. Doesn't sound good does it?

I'll wait for SP1 before I recommend installing it at large on the computers.

I know for a fact switching my parents to Ubuntu has saved "me" TIME & MONEY.

I installed Windows 7 on a laptop I bought in January of 07 and it worked just fine, all drivers, everything. That was over a month ago, as well. When I went to the website for the unit, I just picked up the Vista drivers for whatever there wasn't Windows 7 drivers for. Wasn't difficult.