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VIRTUALISATION No Windows 7 for recession-struck business
VIRTUALISATION No Windows 7 for recession-struck business | No Windows 7 for recession-struck business |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Friday, 31 July 2009 | |
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The new operating system will be available through select channels from next week. Microsoft appears to have gone to great pains to give people reasons to upgrade to Windows 7. For volume license customers there are price inducements. For Windows XP holdouts there is a virtual Windows XP environment. For Vista lovers there is more eye candy. While Windows Vista was unpopular it seems Windows 7 may suffer a similar fate of enterprise obscurity due to a new scourge: in this current economic climate the manpower and finances available to IT departments put Windows 7 deployments right down the list of priorities. In fact, ScriptLogic’s poll revealed nearly 60% of businesses do not have any plans to deploy Windows 7. 34% said they were likely to deploy by the end of 2010, leaving merely 6% who had firm plans to implement Windows 7 this year. Of these there were a number of respondents who claimed to have already gone live, possibly due to frustration with Windows Vista. 43% of respondents indicated that the biggest single factor influencing their decision is the amount of time and resources that a Windows 7 rollout would take. Please turn over for more. |
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