Windows 7: What’s the Big Deal?
Posted on October 30th, 2009 by ajones | No Comments » |
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to be presenting our Windows 7: Unplugged seminar series and it has been a truly enlightening experience. Not only have I had the opportunity to meet over 200 of our customers, but we’ve been able to have a real conversation about why Windows 7 is important to their business and what their plans are for deploying it.
One of the things that I found most stunning, though, is that at every single event there was not one customer that would admit to installing Windows Vista in their enterprise. Now, I’ll grant you that I’ve only talked to about 200 people, and that is a small microcosm of the IT world, but for not a single one to own up to having Vista installed in their corporate IT environments was surprising. Even though I knew that it had lackluster adoption, I assumed that someone, somewhere had to have moved to it.
But, I guess not. Now, before you get ready to send me hate mail because I’m slamming Microsoft, let me set the record straight. I started using Microsoft Windows Vista – as soon as it came out… AND, unlike most people, I did not immediately uninstall it and go back to Windows XP – I ran it continuously until I upgraded to Windows 7 RC1.
While I understood some of the reasoning behind not upgrading, in my mind the reasons were always around the pain and cost of wide scale deployment and hardware upgrades. The reasons I got from customers were much more visceral than that, and the number one reason customers were going to upgrade to Windows 7? Because it’s not Vista.
All I can say is, “Wow.” If all Windows 7 has to do to be successful is not be Vista, then I think we’re halfway there. So far, my experience has been great with Windows 7, and I can tell you it’s just like Vista, only it’s NOT Vista – feel free to comment on your experience here.
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