Re: Gartner:: Skip vista-crapista, wait for windows 7

"Captain Kirk" <> wrote in message
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>
> The funny part about this, is that businesses haven't touched vista...
> and are avoiding it like the swine flu... Vista is a pig with lipstick
> after all....
> so this article is mostly rudimentary.

Just what most have said all along.

> Just as I expected vista has been blacklisted by most IT people... no
> matter how many service packs they throw at it.. its FAIL.
> Now lets see what windows7 will do...
>
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-302869.html

Or unemployed! Seriously. With the cutbacks many companies have turffed
ideas of upgrading completely.

> Businesses that have not yet begun a deployment of Windows Vista should
> skip the operating system and start preparing for Windows 7, analysts at
> Gartner have advised.

Good advice.

> In an advisory, Michael Silver and Stephen Kleynhans said Windows 7's
> release was so close that it would not make sense to move to Vista
> beforehand.
>
> "Preparing for Vista will require the same amount of effort as preparing
> for Windows 7 so, at this point, targeting Windows 7 would add less than
> six months to the schedule and would result in a plan that is more
> politically palatable, better for users, and results in greater
> longevity," the Gartner analysts wrote in the advisory, published on
> Wednesday.

But one would also be best advise and let early adopters flesh out Win 7
issues first.

Win 7 is regurgitated Vista. If M$ hasn't fixed it, it too will fizzz...out
once the hype and hoopla is over.

Canuck57 wrote:
> "Captain Kirk" <> wrote in message
> news:4a12faee$...
>> The funny part about this, is that businesses haven't touched vista...
>> and are avoiding it like the swine flu... Vista is a pig with lipstick
>> after all....
>> so this article is mostly rudimentary.
>
> Just what most have said all along.
>
>> Just as I expected vista has been blacklisted by most IT people... no
>> matter how many service packs they throw at it.. its FAIL.
>> Now lets see what windows7 will do...
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-302869.html
>
> Or unemployed! Seriously. With the cutbacks many companies have turffed
> ideas of upgrading completely.
>
>> Businesses that have not yet begun a deployment of Windows Vista should
>> skip the operating system and start preparing for Windows 7, analysts at
>> Gartner have advised.
>
> Good advice.
>
>> In an advisory, Michael Silver and Stephen Kleynhans said Windows 7's
>> release was so close that it would not make sense to move to Vista
>> beforehand.
>>
>> "Preparing for Vista will require the same amount of effort as preparing
>> for Windows 7 so, at this point, targeting Windows 7 would add less than
>> six months to the schedule and would result in a plan that is more
>> politically palatable, better for users, and results in greater
>> longevity," the Gartner analysts wrote in the advisory, published on
>> Wednesday.
>
> But one would also be best advise and let early adopters flesh out Win 7
> issues first.
>
> Win 7 is regurgitated Vista. If M$ hasn't fixed it, it too will fizzz...out
> once the hype and hoopla is over.
>
>

And then, in utter desperation, they'll roll out XP SE.

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