04 Apr 09 Skipping Vista, When to stop XP and onto Windows 7
Some IT shops stopped upgrading vista, in order to wait for Windows 7 releases. Basically, everyone wants to skip Vista.
We can clearly say that Vista was a bust. In US, only 6% of all organization are installed Vista, meaning, they are very hesitant to use Vista as their main operating system and will wait until Windows 7.
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Skipping vista could be a timing as well as cost concerns. Most importantly, for those who just upgraded hardware actually work great with windows XP versions as it is pretty fast and effective. Windows XP will support until 2014, meaning you will have plenty of time to adjust and adapt when windows 7 commercial version is out and settled as well. But around 2012, most of the XP software third-party vendors will no longer support, therefore, we will need to get used to with windows 7 by 2012 if we decide to skip vista. Some companies will also upgrade the hardware and operating system when windows 7 hits the market, because currently hardware are mostly working fine with windows XP.
Basically, windows 7 is integrated version of vista with faster performance and lesser issues. There are some major tweaks of course. As for me, I am still using windows XP for windows OS, but mainly for work. At home, I use OSX and ubuntu 8.10 desktop edition. So, are you already using Vista or will you skip IT? Any thoughts?
Tags: install, support, upgrade, vista, windows 7, xp
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Personnaly I will keep Vista as long as I can. Ive grown to like it. I may be loosing my mind going against the curent but I doi like it. Thanks
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I will skip Vista. There would be no reason to change this many times.
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Linn Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
well, I am skipping, however, need to use for work-related applications, but it’s not so bad anyway..
but I will definitely welcome windows 7 with minimum core 2 duo with DDR3 4GB, hardware upgrade shall be done around that time again too.
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