If you want to get businesses, small and large, to shift to Win7/Vista SP3,
write it so that any software and any driver that runs on XP will run on the
new OS.
Actually Win 7 should be given away for what it is--Vista SP3, but that is
for the European Trade Union to prosecute, and they may.
Even more importantly make sure that the database servers that run business
programs will work on the new OS, even database servers that are tied to XP
and its server based ilk.
Because XP was/is so successful the perception among those who pay the bills
is that the OS is just a front end, not an end in itself. Microsoft does not
seem to get this key point.
I run a small business and the latest edition of my very expensive
business-specific software is still guaranteed to work only on XP. The
vendor says it should work on Vista but will not support it as such. This is
not an isolated phenomenon.
Apart from that very important piece of billing/accounting software
everything else my employees do can be done with Linux free-ware.
If my vendor offered their software under Linux the switch would cost me
little and save me alot of money in the long run.
Microsoft ignores this at their peril.
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