As several of them stated - they'll skip Vista and move straight to Win7, but only once it's been proven to be stable and solid and only after they've done the extensive in-house testing necessary to make sure all their internal apps and systems are not negatively impacted by the move to the new OS.
Imagine you were running a company with several thousand people in several tens of locations each running apps created 6-10 years ago written in VB by people who are no longer with the company. Now imagine you move everyone to Win7 (without sufficient testing and training) and some of those critical apps that you use to run your business crash or misbehave.
In an economic climate as trecherous as this one, that could mean the difference between a company living and dying.
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