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Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7
Summary
Businesses that have not yet begun a deployment of Windows Vista should skip the operating system and start preparing for Windows 7, according to Gartner analysts.
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Businesses that have not yet begun a deployment of Windows Vista should skip the operating system and start preparing for Windows 7, analysts at Gartner have advised.
In an advisory, Michael Silver and Stephen Kleynhans said Windows 7's release was so close that it would not make sense to move to Vista beforehand.
"Preparing for Vista will require the same amount of effort as preparing for Windows 7 so, at this point, targeting Windows 7 would add less than six months to the schedule and would result in a plan that is more politically palatable, better for users, and results in greater longevity," the Gartner analysts wrote in the advisory, published on Wednesday.
Companies that are already in the middle of a Vista deployment should continue with their rollout but plan a switch to Windows 7 in late 2010 or early 2011, especially if their switch to Vista involved buying new hardware, the analysts wrote. If going to Windows 7 rather than Vista would delay the deployment by six months or less, then companies should simply consider switching to Windows 7 instead of Vista, they suggested.
Silver and Kleynhans said they expected PC manufacturers to begin testing the final Windows 7 code in August this year. Microsoft has not given a release date for Windows 7, but at the end of April, an Acer executive suggested that PCs using the upcoming operating system would go on sale on October 23. The release candidate for Windows 7 is currently available for download.
Microsoft itself has made a similar suggestion. Last Monday, the software maker's senior vice president for Windows, Bill Veghte, told TechEd attendees: "If you're just starting your testing of Vista, with the [Windows 7] release candidate and the quality of that offering, I would switch over and do your testing on the release candidate, and use that going forward."
More than half of businesses plan to skip Vista anyway, Gartner's analysts noted. However, they suggested that as Windows XP ages, most organizations will have to move to Windows 7 to make sure they are using a product that still has support.
"We advise organizations to move off of Windows XP by [the end of 2012] to avoid application support problems, even though Microsoft will support Windows XP into April 2014," Silver and Kleynhans wrote.
A Dell executive has, however, noted that licensing for the various versions of Windows 7 will be more expensive than it was for XP and Vista — a situation that might hinder early Windows 7 adoption.
In an interview with blogger Brooke Crothers on CNET News, Darrel Ward, director of product management for Dell's business client product group, said "schools and government agencies may not be able to afford [the additional cost, and] some of the smaller businesses may not be able to enjoy the software as soon as they'd like".
This article was originally posted on ZDNet UK.
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Unix Pimp18th May 2009 -
Never listen to the Gartner Group
Their credibility died long ago but the final nail in the coffin was their
declaration that Itanium would kill off the UNIX RISC market - here we
are in 2009, and the market seems alive and well; IBM and SUN both are
putting out new and exciting RISC processors.
I can't believe that people pay for gartners advice given how wrong they
are over and over and over again.
Kaiwai18th May 2009 -
I agree with everything except the Sun point.
Sun is dead. SPARC hasn't been that exciting for years (no, I don't consider putting a lot of slow cores on a common die to be exciting).
ye18th May 2009 -
Using that benchmark
POWER isn't all that exciting either.If you look at the SPARC64 and Rock
(which will be coming out soon), both of them are going well; infact Rock
has been growing well above the market rate. The point is, Gartner said
that these would be dead - Sun and IBM would be 100% Itanium; well, it
hasn't happened.
Kaiwai18th May 2009 -
Gartner will say...
whatever you pay them to say. Gartner's greed or laziness has turned them into the court jester of the IT world. Go to it Gartner, you're making us all laugh.
kozmcrae18th May 2009 -
JT8218th May 2009 -
No Kidding! Save your money!
This same "analyst" (what are the requirements to being an "analyst"?), Michael Silver, was saying in February and March to not skip Vista and Microsoft probably won't make their 2009 launch date.
We knew we were going to skip Vista when SP1 didn't stop the train wreck nor get the OS back on the tracks. You have to have one heck of a business argument to explain why you want your applications to run slower and the need to replace 18,000 PCs during an economic downturn.
I'm amazed at how many competing vendors have a Gartner Magic Quadrant showing themselves in the upper right quadrant. Save your money and kick Gartner to the curb. Do your own research and get real results that matter to you.
Uber Dweeb19th May 2009 -
And yet...
They are completely correct on this one.
ejhonda18th May 2009 -
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Throw out enough BS and you're bound to be right occasionally.ye18th May 2009 -
Well Duh!
Is this really necessary. If they have not done Vista by now what is the big deal of waiting about 6 months until Windows 7 is released. So all I gotta say to this is Thank You Captain Obvious!!
bobiroc18th May 2009 -
Or, skip Windows, and move to Linux
This is a good opportunity to move forward to the coming standard. And save a lot of money in the process.
jorjitop18th May 2009 -
Cranial Rectumitis.
Go foam elsewhere.
Spiritusindomit@...18th May 2009 -
Foaming?
How is he foaming? After using the Windows 7 RC myself I have to admit that it is impressive for Windows but 90% of the features in Windows 7 already exist in the likes of Ubuntu as well as heaps of others.
No need to be derogatory.
garethmcc19th May 2009 -
90% of Features?
I guess you are not counting compatibility with software in that. Ubuntu has 90% of the features when compared to Home Basic maybe. Running Ubuntu 9.04 in a VM I think your view is a bit skewed. There is more to Windows than what you see in the GUI.bobiroc19th May 2009 -
duh?
It's kind of a no brainer that you don't go car shopping the day before the new model year is released.Spiritusindomit@...18th May 2009
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