Advice Request Corporate Desktop: Windows 7 gaining ground, XP still at 60 percent

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jamescv7

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In a report from Forrester this week, it has been revealed from their research that Microsoft's Windows XP operating system is still the OS of choice for corporations with around 60% still using it. Windows 7, the company's most recent operating system software has risen in use by approximately 11% in the past year, surpassing Windows Vista usage.

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For an enterprise client with thousands (or tens of thousands) of PCs, upgrading off XP could easily be the most difficult and expensive IT deployment a company will undertake all year, this one of the reasons why most of them are refusing to upgrade.
 

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Although I can be a Linux fanboy, they could cut costs by using their old XP machines incapable of running Win7 as thin clients.
 

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I think when it comes the time Windows XP will no longer maintained by updates probably it will dramatically dropped off the percentage.
 

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jamescv7 said:
I think when it comes the time Windows XP will no longer maintained by updates probably it will dramatically dropped off the percentage.

Actually, it might take some time even after the updates stop for corporates to upgrade, mostly because money. This is why many corporations refused to update from 98, even after updates stopped being released. Nevertheless, some people will be in trouble after updates stop releasing, even though Win7 would probably be more targeted than it is now.
 
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