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Not sure how widespread this is, but in my own experience businesses are actively avoiding buying or upgrading to Windows 8.
by damian2000 13y ago
Not sure how widespread this is, but in my own experience businesses are actively avoiding buying or upgrading to Windows 8.
- whistlerbrk 13y agoThey actively avoided upgrading to IE-anything-above-6 as well. It's hard to draw a lot of conclusions from these articles.
- DrStalker 13y agoWe're actively avoiding it because of the interface issues, but even if Microsoft restored the start button and desktop there's no business need for an upgrade. There may be businesses that will benefit from of the new features, but we're not one of them.
- pessimizer 13y agoA lot of businesses jumped from XP to 7. Maybe Microsoft has a chance to hold on to them if 9 isn't garbage. Scarily, I also see a possibility that business start jumping ship to Apple, Ubuntu and/or some Google ChromeOS offering on the desktop, and Active Directory, Exchange, and MSSQL servers the last remnants of Microsoft operating systems in the enterprise. Granted, I think it's a slim chance, and I might be crazy.
- toyg 13y agoApple, yes (through BYO and the iPhone/iPad trojan horses). The rest, probably not. Any large business with an IT department worth its salt would steer well clear of "supportless" nonstandard oddities like ChromeOS.
- pessimizer 13y agoBut a googleOS that just connects to google services, supplimented with a few apps? I could see that making headway in small businesses.