DISQUS

Robert Hallock · 8 months ago

There's a lot to be said for the numbers in the Dimensional/KACE study. For one, the numbers can be interpreted in an entirely different way: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10217917-75.h...

But such is the case with any body of day. Statistics is the art of using numbers to say what you want.

Robert Hallock · 8 months ago

I hate typos. By day, I of course meant "data."

Cheers!

Mark@Creekside · 8 months ago

I'm not sure this is any "worse" than past migrations from one OS to another. Corporate IT departments have always been slow to adopt new migrations and many as a policy skip versions altogether. It would be more interesting to look at actual adoption curves back to Windows 3.0

Ed Oswald · 8 months ago

Great point. I've pinged Dimensional on both points, folks. I am thinking Larry may have slightly misinterpreted that 14 percent number as being of the whole survey rather than 14% of that 50% that have considered... but I want to double check with the source for clarification.

Joe Toe · 8 months ago

ask stupid questions, get stupid answers. How did Dimension position the value of Win7 vs WinXP... was it just another OS without any reason to upgrade? Or did they get into the advantages of x64 Win7?

John Bender · 8 months ago

Yes god forbid Microsoft do something for the developers: Make Visual Studio free for personal use you friggin' idiots.

Peter Antypas · 8 months ago

Actually I don't even understand why Microsoft still regards development tools as "product".

Bojan · 8 months ago

Express version *IS* free, and is feature-full

bloop · 8 months ago

Keep in mind that the Win7 design is very close to that of Vista, so applications will not need to be rebuilt for it...

foo · 8 months ago

Windows 7 will be so awesome! With it, you'll be able to do word processing, spreadsheets, play games, even browse the internet! It comes with a nifty calculator too. I'll buy Windows 7 no matter what it costs!

Not.

Jeremy · 8 months ago

Why does the conventional user even need an OS? The birth of the browser (which can easily be hard coded onto a chip) spelled the doom of the the OS. Maturation of the cloud is simply the nail in the coffin.

de-void · 8 months ago

You guys really need to re-read the reports. As Ed Bott points out here http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=826, the reality of the data reported is that:

more than 80% of IT pros plan to move to Windows 7 within 36 months of the survey date (which was in turn about six months earlier than the expected release date of Windows 7 in September of this year). That would be, by historical standards, phenomenal. Breathtaking, in fact.

Pacific Crest Securities' survey tends to corroborate these numbers:
* 50% plan to upgrade to Windows 7 as soon as it is available
* 46% expect to start the upgrade before the end of 2009, within months of Windows 7’s release
* 55% of respondents expect to do system-wide upgrades, rather than upgrading as new PCs are purchased.

I think you need to revisit your analysis.

Graphic Equaliser · 8 months ago

If Micorsoft bothered writing new OSes that were as fast as the ones they were replacing, people might migrate to them. But to pay for an OS that is provably slower than XP SP3 is never going to be popular among the paying public. They'll stick to their guns. I only moved to XP once it was proven to run faster on the same hardware than Win 98 SE !!!

Kyle Franz · 8 months ago

Win7 _is_ faster than XP.

MarkKB · 8 months ago

I'm sorry, *only 24%*? That's one-quarter of business, a number any competitor could only dream of owning.

Ken Knopfli · 8 months ago

Why would any developer specifically develop FOR Vista, or develop FOR Win7?

Surely most will want to address as many installed OSs out there? If I were to write a program from scratch now, I'd target XP, Vista, Win7 and, if at all possible, Win95/98/ME too, unless there is some special reason not to.

Ken Knopfli · 8 months ago

Why would any developer SPECIFICALLY develop only for Vista or Win7, unless there is some must-have OS-specific feature required?

If I were to write a program from scratch now, I'd assume my executable runs on XP, Vista and Win7. Why shouldn't it? And if it also runs on Win95/98/ME, all the better.

Beautiful WALLPAPER THEMES · 7 months ago

Good work !

honn robinson · 6 months ago

hi im a geeksquad agent iand im sure that the percentage of business useing windows 7 will sore to a wopping 80 percent due to the fact that this os is so much more user friendly and this is what the people have be waiting for you have faster web browsing and more softwear compatability and the systems windows updates process i less painful to the os
i will say microsoft has done a mavalous job on this one so if you want a great os like xp was you got it with windows 7 hay windows xp eat your heart out .

Windows 7 · 6 months ago

I've read on many blogs that the install process of win 7 would have been faster, but I didn't really noticed any improvement on it; especially if compared to vista. It takes 35minutes on fast machines and 1hour in slow ones.