Windows 7 enterprise adoption

Much of the coverage of survey was not merely misleading -- it's been flat-out wrong. The survey asked IT professionals if they would be adopting Windows 7 some time within a year of when they took the survey, which was in March, There's no mention of in the report. The adoption number should surprise no one, given that Windows 7 hasn't even shipped yet, and no one is sure of the ship date. Microsoft has previously given a ship date of January, Given that, who would expect a large number of enterprises to adopt Windows 7 within two or three months of the promised ship date?

It's true that Windows 7 may well ship before January, , but given the uncertainty of a ship date, it's no surprise that IT folks aren't willing to commit to adopting it within a year of when they're asked the question. However, on the latter point, Cherry said that with the economic crisis, companies may not be purchasing expensive computers when they do loosen budgets to buy new machines, so the bit argument for the OS — one that Microsoft tried to make with Vista — may not fly.

Still, Cherry is reserving judgment about whether Windows 7 will run well on older or low-cost machines until he sees its final release. For Cherry, a more compelling reason for companies to upgrade is a set of features in Windows 7 that take advantage of new capabilities in its companion server OS, Windows Server R2, which Microsoft is expected to release shortly after Windows 7, he said.

There are networking and other features in Windows Server R2 that take advantage of new features in Windows 7, so Microsoft might have better luck promoting the two together this time around, despite the flagging economy, he said.

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Online Extras. Microsoft to handle managing three operating systems in ' They are not remediating their applications. They are not understanding the impact they are having on the migration project. But why? So much focus has been placed on the technology that the people that make it happen have been lost in the process. You need to fix this, and you need to fix it now.

Why do they need this disruption? What are the benefits for them? Why should they care? Provide them the tools to get involved — what is their readiness status for migration? Can they help you accelerate readiness? Generate demand for self-service Windows 7 deployment. Try not to fight human nature — we push back on things that are pushed onto us, and we work with the things we buy into, even if they are not perfect.

Apply this thinking to your Windows 7 enterprise deployment and I guarantee a better result.