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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Organizations looking to make the move to Microsoft Windows 7 are faced with a lengthy and potentially complicated migration. With the majority of organizations moving from Windows XP (most skipped Vista), Microsoft promises that enhancements in Windows 7 will make it a much more secure and reliable OS. And one thing everyone can agree on when embarking on such an assignment, is that you need to know where you are and what you have in your environment before you can even begin to think about planning such a major migration project. If you do decide to move forward with an upgrade, it's imperative you have the right tools in place to plan, deploy, track and report on the effort. |
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For most IT departments, a Windows 7 migration is inevitable. Like many consumers, a healthy percentage of businesses never migrated from Windows XP to Windows Vista, and now the days for XP are numbered. IT must ensure Windows 7 is fully in the door and XP is fully out well before the 2014 cut-off for extended support arrives.
According to Annette Jump of Gartner: "The negative image of Windows Vista among many business companies due to application and hardware compatibility issues will result in many companies that have not started deploying Vista, will skip it and move straight to Windows 7. The delay in Windows Vista deployments in 2009/10 and increase in number of companies planning to skip Windows Vista will lead to a major boost in Windows 7 enterprise deployments from middle of 2011."
For those who did make the leap to Vista, Windows 7 offers the highly-desired "polishing" features that complement Vista's "plumbing" upgrades. Greatly improved usability, easier manageability, and increased security are just a few of the
reasons Vista users will also move to the new version. There is an unending list of opinions about whether and when organizations should upgrade to Windows 7. For every favorable perspective on the new system, there seems to be a counterargument.
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