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So many Fortune 500 companies are going to sit on Windows 7 and Office 2010 for years because of Windows 8 and Office 2013. Not because they are bad, but becaus

So many Fortune 500 companies are going to sit on Windows 7 and Office 2010 for years because of Windows 8 and Office 2013. Not because they are bad, but because this all looks like a big shift.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Well, at least it isn't XP. Windows 7 will be able to run IE10.
- mitchty 14y ago
  If the company I work at is any indication, expect IE 8 to be around for a long time. They just last year updated ie6 to 7 on our xp systems. And just recently are trialing windows 7 for certain groups. Big corporations move glacially slow at updates.
  - hef19898 14y ago
    Same at my place, we also still stuck Office 2003 on 64-bit machines...
  - robryan 14y ago
    Are there any good posts out there from the perspective of an IT team sticking with IE6/7 and XP? Would love to see this story from the other side of the fence.
    - mchusma 14y ago
      Not a post exactly but I had my first ping of sympathy yesterday. We have an application that relies on flash for communication/video, and it broke several times over the last few weeks on Chrome & Firefox as they made adjustments & pushed them automatically. Sat down w/ my CTO and discussed the option of locking down automatic updates. Not the same thing exactly, but I imagine many IT departments wanted to update, saw their applications break on the new platform, and resist the change. It could cost more money and there is no guarantee of improvement by switching, so they keep it the same. My first twinge of sympathy for them.
    - jauco 14y ago
      Mostly third party webapps like the intranet, lunch menu or internal change request forms. And these needn't be developed in house. Our pretty expensive IT ticket management system doesn't run well on IE9, so we run IE8 internally by default. (We're all able to install our own browsers, so most people are on chrome or firefox)
floppydisk 14y ago
You're more likely to see an intermediate upgrade in the next year or two to Office 2013 without a jump to Windows 8. Having worked at Large Org Inc., several years ago, they were still running Windows XP but upgraded the Office Suite to 2007 without an OS jump. I imagine the same will happen here, especially as people with pull start asking why they don't have the latest and greatest powerpoint toys.

So many Fortune 500 companies are going to sit on Windows 7 and Office 2010 for years because of Windows 8 and Office 2013. Not because they are bad, but because this all looks like a big shift.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

Well, at least it isn't XP. Windows 7 will be able to run IE10.

mitchty 14y ago
If the company I work at is any indication, expect IE 8 to be around for a long time. They just last year updated ie6 to 7 on our xp systems. And just recently are trialing windows 7 for certain groups. Big corporations move glacially slow at updates.
- hef19898 14y ago
  Same at my place, we also still stuck Office 2003 on 64-bit machines...
- robryan 14y ago
  Are there any good posts out there from the perspective of an IT team sticking with IE6/7 and XP? Would love to see this story from the other side of the fence.
  - mchusma 14y ago
    Not a post exactly but I had my first ping of sympathy yesterday. We have an application that relies on flash for communication/video, and it broke several times over the last few weeks on Chrome & Firefox as they made adjustments & pushed them automatically. Sat down w/ my CTO and discussed the option of locking down automatic updates. Not the same thing exactly, but I imagine many IT departments wanted to update, saw their applications break on the new platform, and resist the change. It could cost more money and there is no guarantee of improvement by switching, so they keep it the same. My first twinge of sympathy for them.
  - jauco 14y ago
    Mostly third party webapps like the intranet, lunch menu or internal change request forms. And these needn't be developed in house. Our pretty expensive IT ticket management system doesn't run well on IE9, so we run IE8 internally by default. (We're all able to install our own browsers, so most people are on chrome or firefox)

floppydisk 14y ago

You're more likely to see an intermediate upgrade in the next year or two to Office 2013 without a jump to Windows 8. Having worked at Large Org Inc., several years ago, they were still running Windows XP but upgraded the Office Suite to 2007 without an OS jump. I imagine the same will happen here, especially as people with pull start asking why they don't have the latest and greatest powerpoint toys.