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The more I see of Windows 8, the less I'm convinced businesses will migrate to it. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but I wonder whether the direction taken by Micr
by nhebb 14y ago
The more I see of Windows 8, the less I'm convinced businesses will migrate to it. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but I wonder whether the direction taken by Microsoft will spur more businesses to finally migrate from XP to Windows 7 - before it's too late.
- bztzt 14y agoFWIW, getting (any sizable % of) businesses to migrate was an explicit non-goal of the Windows 8 project from the beginning.
- nhebb 14y agoDid Ballmer (or other Microsoft exec) address this? If so I'd be curious to read what they said.
- bztzt 14y agoIt's not like they're going to go around encouraging businesses not to migrate, but from the start the thinking was that after just moving to W7 they wouldn't want to migrate anyway, that there was little short-term threat from desktop competitors, and that the long-term (or really medium-term) threat was from "consumerization of IT" and employees forming their expectations of how computing should work via iPhone etc. - so they decided W8 should be a heavily consumer-focused release.