Comments on: Windows 7 - Get your free ‘release candidate’ tomorrow http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/windows-7-get-your-free-release-candidate-tomorrow/ A Whatis.com blog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: MargaretRouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/windows-7-get-your-free-release-candidate-tomorrow/#comment-351 MargaretRouse Tue, 05 May 2009 10:30:49 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/windows-7-get-your-free-release-candidate-tomorrow/#comment-351 Great point! I wonder, though, whether the next time there's a new hardware purchase to be made, those of us still using Windows XP will find our next new machine arriving with Windows 7. Do you think think that's a reasonable scenario for adoption? I need to find out whether XP mode is going to be a blessing or a curse. Great point!

I wonder, though, whether the next time there’s a new hardware purchase to be made, those of us still using Windows XP will find our next new machine arriving with Windows 7. Do you think think that’s a reasonable scenario for adoption?

I need to find out whether XP mode is going to be a blessing or a curse.

]]> By: Dawn treador http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/windows-7-get-your-free-release-candidate-tomorrow/#comment-350 Dawn treador Mon, 04 May 2009 21:13:13 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/windows-7-get-your-free-release-candidate-tomorrow/#comment-350 In this economy, I doubt that many businesses with over 100 staff members will be able to afford enterprise-wide deployment of Windows 7. My employer is over 50,000 strong, and won't budge off XP and Office 2002 unless there's a mission-critical reason to do so. I could probably build a business case for a new OS, but it would have to offer a cure to a big problem that continues to plague most businesses and consumers---lack of speed. Any new OS would have to have a paradigm-shifting speed benefit to be considered. But I continue to see OS's and apps getting fatter and fatter, leaving it up to the hardware manufacturers to solve for speed. In this economy, I doubt that many businesses with over 100 staff members will be able to afford enterprise-wide deployment of Windows 7. My employer is over 50,000 strong, and won’t budge off XP and Office 2002 unless there’s a mission-critical reason to do so.

I could probably build a business case for a new OS, but it would have to offer a cure to a big problem that continues to plague most businesses and consumers—lack of speed. Any new OS would have to have a paradigm-shifting speed benefit to be considered. But I continue to see OS’s and apps getting fatter and fatter, leaving it up to the hardware manufacturers to solve for speed.

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