Windows 7 concerns ease

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:20

Business IT - Technology

Windows 7 could be adopted by a majority of corporates by the end of 2010, if a new survey is correct.

A survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Dell's Kace business unit just three months after Windows 7's release found 87% of corporate IT organisations were already planning to migrate to Microsoft's new operating system, and 58% expected to deploy it this year.

This compares very favourably with Vista: only 47% participants in an earlier survey conducted nine months after Vista's release said they had plans to deploy that operating system.

Bucking the conventional wisdom, almost half (46%) of respondents said they would not delay deployment of Windows 7 until Service Pack 1 was released.

Not surprisingly, concerns about Windows 7 were well down compared with a similar survey in April 2009 (57% vs 67%). This was especially true for stability and performance concerns.

The main area of concern is still software compatibility, and that only eased from 88% to 86% over the nine month interval.

How much interest is there in alternative operating systems? Please read on.