Microsoft has to realize that it is getting progressively harder to argue the benefits of deploying a large bloated operating system company wide. Many employees only need Internet and Email, something easily and cheaply done on a smart phone or a net-book. You just ca't justify the cost for them of a Win7 capable machine.
For people like me, the only noticeable benefits Windows 7 has over XP are seen in playing games and watching media and giving a Windows 7 enabled machine to these people at best is not very cost effective and at worst will more than likely lead to abuses of the technology and decreased productivity. Why buy into something offering less productivity for more money.
What would be more impressive is if Microsoft could get on the ball with an ARM compatible OS besides Windows CE for Net-books, if they could stop nerfing Windows with sub-flavors, and start thinking in terms of a functional competitor for Linux.
Microsoft makes business case for Windows 7
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Microsoft trotted out some of its biggest customers on Tuesday to make its case that it still makes sense to spend money on software in a tough economy.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft trotted out some of its biggest customers on Tuesday to make its case that it still makes sense to spend money on software in a tough economy.
The gathering of invited corporate IT users here is designed to serve as the beginning of the business push for Windows 7, which is already available to larger businesses and goes on sale to consumers and small businesses on October 22.
Among those already trying out Windows 7 is Intel. The chipmaker did a lot of work to make Windows Vista work, but like many companies, it decided not to put it on its own desktops...
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Socratesfoot30th Sep 2009 -
RE: Microsoft makes business case for Windows 7
not quite true - there are compelling reasons to move
from XP. Changes to the core operating system code to
move it in to the generation of multithreading and secure
code actually makes win 7 run faster and more secure than
xp on smaller, less powerful cpus. There is also things like
the progress in the driver model between XP and win 7,
seriously, XP can be ruined by drivers and there is very
little integrity in a lot of hardware manufacturers driver
code. A lot is hack rubbish. 64 bit win 7 makes PCs (even
the small ones) more reliable and secure too. This is all
coming from someone who is actually a Mac user, but a
Windows programmer.
pixolut2nd Oct 2009 -
RE: Microsoft makes business case for Windows 7
Operating systems are now a commodity. I don't understand how your OS will "increase productivity" as the OS is responsible for hardware and your graphical user interface. It is the applications where the productivity enhancements are. Sure they can bundle some apps with it, but all in all, there is no case for a new OS. Windows 2000 was quite nice. The only issue is MS stops the security updates eventually so you have to move to something. What they don't tell you is your savings are eaten by the additional hardware costs needed to run the same thing. It keeps getting bigger and slower. Look at Linux/KDE then they went from 3 to 4, the OS and apps (for kde4) actually ran better - faster and smaller. The whole idea of paying for OS upgrades and specific version numbers needs to die. If there is a computer, it needs an OS, and it needs the latest security patches. The whole "I'm limited by my OS so I'll pay for en upgrade" ended with windows 2000. Since then its been false versioning.
scorp1us2nd Oct 2009
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