We''ve got about 275 desktops to work on for Win7. Mixture of W2K and XP. Obviously, we need to get rid of the W2k first but there's no way we can budget to upgrade all 275 machines at once. The dollars just aren't there. Since many of them are clinical pc's and only running the HCIS, we are looking at Citrix. True, it won't save money but it'll sure save us time.
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:28:01 -0400 > Subject: Re: Win 7 license gotchas: Limits on upgrade from Vista, downgrade > to XP > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > 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/> ~ _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
