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That's why users haven't forked out money. If it comes free with the new computers, fine. I reckon we'll be seeing it for another couple of years. It's been co
by omh 15y ago
That's why users haven't forked out money. If it comes free with the new computers, fine. I reckon we'll be seeing it for another couple of years.
It's been coming free with our corporate PCs for years now, and we're still unlikely to switch any time soon.
(At least until they stop shipping security patches)
- zokier 15y agoJust curious, why haven't you switched yet or have planned to switch 'anytime soon'?
- AndrewDucker 15y agoMoving a few thousand PCs to a new OS means testing every application you use to make sure it's compatible, and then running a large set of rollouts to desktops. It's very disruptive, and horribly expensive. If at all possible, you don't do it more than once per decade.
- zokier 15y agoI understand that it's expensive, but from my point of view it seems like upgrading is going to happen sooner or later, and I just don't see that many advantages in waiting for later.
- AndrewDucker 15y agoIf we did it every five years then it would have cost twice as much over the last decade, and we'd have ended up stuck with Vista for five years :->
- zokier 15y agoAre you saying that many of those clinging to XP are planning to jump directly to 8?
- AndrewDucker 15y ago8 is due out this year, XP dies in two years, so providing 8 is stable at the end of 2013, and the interface looks like it will support business productivity perfectly well, then yeah, jumping to 8 would make sense. Particularly as that way there would be longer until we have to make the next jump.
- omh 15y agoPretty much this. It's only quite recently that many of our business apps are even officially supported on Windows 7, and even then it will involve upgrades and changes to things that are otherwise working. If you don't need to be on the cutting edge then there's a benefit to being a little behind the times and letting others iron out the bugs first.