Brian Gammage

Gartner Lead Microsoft Analyst Neil MacDonald explores the possibility of using Windows 7 Ultimate instead of buying SA on his blog: http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/10/28/windows-7-ultimate-sort-of/

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The following factors are expected to drive adoption of Windows 7 in the market:
• Quick transition between Windows Vista and Windows 7 availability on new PC shipments for consumers and small business buyers. We expect that PC vendors and retailers will be managing their product inventory well to ensure that products with pre-loaded Windows Vista will [...]

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So Windows 7 is finally upon us and most organizations already know quite a lot about it: they know it’s the same generation technology as Windows Vista, that’s it has a smaller overall footprint, that it has many small improvements that will make it easier to adopt and use. In effect, that it’s like Windows [...]

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Since receiving the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of Windows 7 last October, I’ve installed various versions of the product about 30 times across 15 different systems.  The systems in question have run the gamut from netbooks and an Atom based net-top, through several variations of corporate and consumer notebooks, a couple of branded [...]

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Windows 7 is based on the same technology generation as Windows Vista – which despite talk of layers (more than 60) and components to decouple some components, was a very large, complex and highly integrated bubble of software. When presenting at conferences, I often compare the highly integrated nature of the Windows OS with badly [...]

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Today’s guest blogger has his own blog. Read David Smith’s thoughts on using consumer SKUs in business at:
http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/

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I am Annette’s Jump, Research Director in Gartner’s WW Client Computing Team, and I’m today’s guest blogger.  I cover client operating systems on PCs (Desktop PCs, Mobile PCs and Mini-Notebooks) and I am the lead analyst behind the worldwide operating system forecast. My other areas of expertise are the mature and emerging PC markets in [...]

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Back in 2003, AMD released the Athlon 64, the first x86 processor that ran in 64-bit mode. This was followed in early 2005 Intel’s Pentium 4 660 which also supported 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture. However, the market has pretty much ignored 64-bit operation and except for a few fringe users (like me*), it has mostly [...]

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Welcome to the Windows 7 blog. Over the next few weeks, we  will be blogging some thoughts about Windows 7 and we’re going to use Brian’s blog to capture it all. I’m Michael Silver, lead analyst on client operating systems for Gartner, and I’m the first of a number of guest bloggers. We invite you [...]

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