Wait for Windows 7 or not?
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 4.6.2008
With Windows 7 poised to begin private testing any time now and to ship by late 2009, a number of business users are wondering whether they should simply skip Windows Vista all together and wait for 7 instead.
Microsoft, not surprisingly, is advising customers against taking a pass on Vista. As part of a new white paper aimed at influencing business users who are evaluating when and whether to move to Windows Vista, Microsoft is advocating enterprise users should migrate to Vista sooner rather than later.
The white paper — “The Business Value of Windows Vista: Five Reasons to Deploy Now” — doesn’t include a lot of new data; instead, it revisits the business features Microsoft built into Vista and highlights some of the new deployment tools and case-study examples of companies who have migrated to Vista. But it does offer Microsoft’s official guidance on Windows 7 deployments. From the paper:
“There is no need to wait for Windows 7. It is a goal of the Windows 7 release to minimize application compatibility for customers who have deployed Windows Vista since there was considerable kernel and device level innovation in Windows Vista. The Windows 7 release is expected to have only minor changes in these areas. Customers who are still using Windows XP when Windows 7 releases will have a similar application compatibility experience moving to Windows 7 as exists moving to Windows Vista from Windows XP.”
Lee Nicholls, Director of Global Solutions with Getronics — a Microsoft integration partner that sells heavily into the financial services and manufacturing industries — agreed with Microsoft’s compatibility warning.
“There could be even less compatibility between XP and Windows 7,” based on what Microsoft ends up providing in terms of new migration and deployment tools, Nicholls said.
The jump between Windows XP and Windows 7 could be a big one, while the one from Vista to Windows 7 should be fairly minor, Nicholls said. And given that “Windows 7 is going to be a superset of Windows Vista, it’s not really something worth waiting for,” Nicholls added.
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Comments(8)
i don't know why, but i'm sure that a lot of people who'll keep xp until 7 comes out
will have a bad surprise.
microsoft clearly said that there will be no compatibility
with software and hardware that are not designed for at least vista.
7 will also have
more feature than vista which means that it'll be surely more heavy than vista.
waiting... at least w7 will be more customizable - you acn install only what you need.
hope to have better interface however, because i like the classic way of navigate, not the
vista way.
i'm hoping ms to not change many interface on every version upgrade. as windows user,
it's hard to get use to it and rather not use those functions at all!
windows 7 will normally have the same interface as vista.
what the hell would any one be doing with software or hardware that would only be
compatible with windows xp, or previuos versions of windows especially in 2009, late 2009
might i add, microsoft said it wouldnt be as much of a resource hog as windows vista
change the format every three years make everyone buy new software.
microsoft is
bleeding the public dry.
it's all about money not the customer.
you know how it
goes the printer is the same price as the ink it needs!
what i wanna say is that at the end of 2009, compagnies are going to release software
that won't be compatible anymore with xp, same for drivers.
believe it or not some where in the near future xp will be a thing of the past, a relic,
just like its predecessers, why dont people want to advance why would any one wanto use
the same os for the next 40 years, given the chance i know that some of you would, maybe
im different im an enthusiast always interested in the new software and hardware any thing
new they haveto offer im on it
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