Comments on: Windows 7 – Great OS? or the Greatest OS from MSFT? http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/02/02/windows-7-great-os-or-the-greatest-os-from-msft/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: david smith http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/02/02/windows-7-great-os-or-the-greatest-os-from-msft/comment-page-1/#comment-18 david smith Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:37:51 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/02/02/windows-7-great-os-or-the-greatest-os-from-msft/#comment-18 thanks Mike. I agree with your comments. ... i guess i'll put you down for 'great' :-) thanks Mike. I agree with your comments.

… i guess i’ll put you down for ‘great’ :-)

]]> By: Michael Silver http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/02/02/windows-7-great-os-or-the-greatest-os-from-msft/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Michael Silver Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:27:25 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/02/02/windows-7-great-os-or-the-greatest-os-from-msft/#comment-17 Windows 7 working for you and Windows 7 being ready for enterprise deployment are two differnet things, and I hope readers remember that. Windows Vista has been blasted in the press and a lot of organizations are thinking about skipping it. But the product is a lot better than its press, and for some, it's still the right way to go. Whenever Windows 7 ships, it will be a good 12-18 months before companies can deploy it broadly. ISV support will need to come. Application testing will need to be performed. Images will need to be built and tested. And pilots will need to be run. Therefore, broad deployment won't start till 1H11 for most companies. It's gotten harder for an OS to really innovate with new features that will motivate significant investment in migration. That may not happen again. So the object for installing a new OS has become making sure that you're on a platform that your ISVs support with their applications. By 2012, this won't be Windows XP anymore. So if you skip Vista, you'll need to spend money to forklift your PCs from XP to Windows 7 in 2011 and 2012. And if you can't afford to do that project, the amount of XP left in your organization may be a real problem when it comes to running new versions of your critical apps. Windows 7 working for you and Windows 7 being ready for enterprise deployment are two differnet things, and I hope readers remember that. Windows Vista has been blasted in the press and a lot of organizations are thinking about skipping it. But the product is a lot better than its press, and for some, it’s still the right way to go.

Whenever Windows 7 ships, it will be a good 12-18 months before companies can deploy it broadly. ISV support will need to come. Application testing will need to be performed. Images will need to be built and tested. And pilots will need to be run. Therefore, broad deployment won’t start till 1H11 for most companies.

It’s gotten harder for an OS to really innovate with new features that will motivate significant investment in migration. That may not happen again. So the object for installing a new OS has become making sure that you’re on a platform that your ISVs support with their applications. By 2012, this won’t be Windows XP anymore. So if you skip Vista, you’ll need to spend money to forklift your PCs from XP to Windows 7 in 2011 and 2012. And if you can’t afford to do that project, the amount of XP left in your organization may be a real problem when it comes to running new versions of your critical apps.

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