Windows 7 Faces Indifference in the Business World
Windows 7 [http://www.microsoft.com] until at least 2011.
Mainstream support for InformationWeek [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/], meaning that most are still running Windows XP and plan to do so for some time yet.
Things improve after the first year of release, although not dramatically so. 42 percent of respondents said they would roll out Windows 7 in 12 to 24 months of its release, 24 percent said they would wait 24 to 36 months and 17 percent said it would take more than 36 months before they went ahead with the move. And while a smooth and successful launch of a well-built operating system could change those numbers, it's hard to deny that they represent bad news for Microsoft. The company's death-grip on the PC market has been slipping, helped along by the unpopular Windows Vista [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/], and fully half of the survey's participants said they've considered switching to a non-Windows environment in order to avoid Vista or Windows 7.
Mainstream support for Windows XP is ending but "extended support," which offers security updates to all users but reserves non-security-related hot-fixes only to companies with support contracts, will continue until April 2014.
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Windows 7 [http://www.microsoft.com] until at least 2011.
Mainstream support for InformationWeek [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/], meaning that most are still running Windows XP and plan to do so for some time yet.
Things improve after the first year of release, although not dramatically so. 42 percent of respondents said they would roll out Windows 7 in 12 to 24 months of its release, 24 percent said they would wait 24 to 36 months and 17 percent said it would take more than 36 months before they went ahead with the move. And while a smooth and successful launch of a well-built operating system could change those numbers, it's hard to deny that they represent bad news for Microsoft. The company's death-grip on the PC market has been slipping, helped along by the unpopular Windows Vista [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/], and fully half of the survey's participants said they've considered switching to a non-Windows environment in order to avoid Vista or Windows 7.
Mainstream support for Windows XP is ending but "extended support," which offers security updates to all users but reserves non-security-related hot-fixes only to companies with support contracts, will continue until April 2014.
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