On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Jim Majorowicz<[email protected]> wrote: > Our plan is to sell Windows 7 on any new PC (32 > or 64 bit) we sell after it releases and make use of XP Mode where necessary.
That's nice if you're *selling* PCs, but it doesn't help the companies who actually *use* them. I've got a fleet of just over 100 corporate PCs, some of which need hardware upgrades to run Vista, and all of which currently run Win XP. My plan, and the budget to go with it, has been to upgrade the organization to Win 7 in 2013, before the XP 2014 EOL date. I wanted to the upgrade in a relatively short amount of time, to avoid running two platforms in parallel. That would reduce our internal support and documentation costs -- all the docs can just be changed to assume the new UIs. Now it looks like I need to accelerate that two years, to 2011, since that's when we'll no longer be able to downgrade OEM licenses. Or we buy VL seats for *all* new PCs, thus buying Windows twice for every PC. I'm not personally worried about the Vista -> Win7 limit, because we're not going to buy 25 new computers before the Win7 release. But if we were a larger company, that would stink, too. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
