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ScriptLogic Corporation recently conducted a survey to learn how businesses and IT administrators will accept Windows 7. The software manufacturer of Microsoft Windows-based networks found that most businesses are not in any hurry to adopt the new release.
More than 1,000 companies responded to the survey and 59.3 percent of those respondents revealed that they were not planning to switch to Windows 7. A mere 5.4 percent said they would implement Windows 7 by the end of this year, and 34 percent said they would come on board by the end of 2010.
Despite the short-term outlook, ScriptLogic said they are confident when looking at the long-term. During the first year of Windows XP, the adoption rate was only 12-14 percent.
Could it be that Google’s announcement to enter the operating system market impacted these survey results? Do you plan on adopting Windows 7 for your business? Will Windows 7 redeem Microsoft after its Vista woes?
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Let’s wait and see as Microsoft Windows are confident with Windows 7 at the long-term. I will look into the feature of Window 7 and decide.
Is there a good reason why your graphic shows Windows 7 running on a Mac screen with a Mac keyboard and mouse? I think that’s somewhat ironic.
And no, I will not be “upgrading” to Windows 7, either. I skipped Vista and Windows Me, and used Windows 2000 happily for a long time. XP until SP2 was not suitable for sustained use, either.
OS upgrades sounds like progress to me. I am sure there must be some benefits to the upgrade other than a nice interface.
Biggest problem I have with all recent Windows OS’s is that there are too many flavors to choose from. Why not just produce one version that can be used by the home user and large companies? A bit like the Apple OS.
I think its really up to Microsoft to get software developers on board well before any OS release rather than rushing out a product like Vista and now Windows 7. I know IT professionals who have stayed well clear of Vista due to lack of application support and are only now starting to introduce it.
My own experience maintaining an office IT system is that despite having given Vista a go it wouldn’t talk to the office’s 3 year old printers or 5 year old plotter both of which were quite serviceable. Some of the software we were using every day wouldn’t work on it and there was no upgrade option, and most of the office hardware would have needed upgrading to run it. So new PC’s were down graded to XP pro and it is highly unlikely that unless they did an across the board upgrade of everything that Windows 7 would be adopted. One of the directors is a MAC fan, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they went down that route if forced to do a full upgrade.
Windows 7? Are you kiding… As a business owner i’m not going on board with Winfows 7. Windows has been recently producing software that as sever problems - Vista was a flop and Outlook 2007 is horriable (how can you down grade the feature you offer)!
I didn’t go near Vista and can’t yet see any reason to spend on win7. XP does all I, and most of my clients, need it to.
If the price is low enough and it does’nt need expensive hardware upgrades (fat chance) it may be worth considering.
If Microsoft do their usual trick of forcing us into a corner by ensuring software built for 7 does not run on XP I think I will look toward Unix rather than 7. I already use Open Office and have been experimenting with GIMP and one or two others so I am beginning to feel much less dependant upon Microsoft.
After having problems with Vista, we decided to make a switch to the Mac. We are Linux/Unix folks anyhow (Mac having a Linux backend), and were OK with using XP for our business applications. Since most apps are now available on the Mac as well, we feel that we can make a switch to the Mac, which appears to be listening to it’s customers better than the PC is right now.
Windows 7 might be better, but it’s just too late for us to experiment with… and I don’t get that warm fuzzy from the ads that MS runs on TV. I suspect that a lot of Microsoft died when it’s visionary stepped away as CEO….
After spending the last 14 years working in I.T as an engineer and system builder, and dealing with business and automation clients, I very much doubt that Google’s OS will be taken up by business users. Fundamentally the roll out issue of Windows 7 would be magnified when rolling out Google OS, as Google OS is likely to be a Linux based system, and therefore won’t support a majority of the software that corporate users use day to day.
It’s likely there will be a consumer pick-up of Windows 7, as personally I use the latest 64bit install on both my Quad Core workstation/gaming rig and Sony Vaio laptop that I use for web development and work. I‘ve noticed a significant increase in performance, plus even more compatibility with software I have used since Windows XP days, such as VNC and CuteFTP plus other diagnostic and recovery tools. I would also point out that iTunes 64bit runs like a dream on Windows 7.
With corporate users, after the first year there will be a greater pick up of the OS, but the very nature of corporate I.T means the roll outs will be slow, with some companies sticking with a few key machines running XP still. But then again, I still know large and well known automation businesses that still use Windows 3.11 and Dos, so this doesn’t surprise me.
Matt
Stuart Green says: “microsoft fob of the moron home users with fancy graphics us `real` users want minimum dressing up and maximum response”
Hmm just wondering who the moron really is..
When Microsoft realise that 90% of Domain admins disable XP Themes via group poliy and a lot of the other `crap` that business users dont need. They may then realise that business users and network admins want to `KISS` (keep it simple stupid). I would rather a file open as soon as I click it than wait for it to float around the screen for 3 seconds looking all nice. 99% of out desktops would need at least a ram upgrade to run 7 + to that the licence cost for over 200 machines = noway from upper managment and thats no even mentioning the server room!. Yes microsoft fob of the moron home users with fancy graphics us `real` users want minimum dressing up and maximum response. e.g nt4 workstation vs win 98se both built for a purpose.
We will not be adopting windows 7 or Vista.
Windows XP does all that we need it to do and runs on older equipment.