Looking Beyond Windows 7

section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 27.10.2009

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So Windows 7 is finally upon us and most organizations already know quite a lot about it: they know it’s the same generation technology as Windows Vista, that’s it has a smaller overall footprint, that it has many small improvements that will make it easier to adopt and use.

In effect, that it’s like Windows Vista without some of the “hard edges” that deterred its adoption. They know about it because they’ve already planned for it – in a majority of cases, because they knew when they decided to skip Windows Vista that they were making migration to Windows 7 a necessity. For a majority of organizations, Windows 7 is the next major step on their client computing roadmap.

Many organizations are now building client computing roadmaps that look five or more years ahead. They are doing so because technology changes are creating more options for delivering applications to users and they need direction to navigate through the new range of choices.

They are also doing so because they recognize their desktop real estate as a critical asset that defines end user capabilities and the per-user cost of IT. Client computing assets consume a big slice of most IT budgets and many organizations are stepping back to take a more strategic view of their current and future investments.

This change is significant – it represents a shift from in the balance of market power between suppliers and buyers. Organizations are no longer prepared to navigate supplier roadmaps without question – they are building their own roadmaps so suppliers can navigate theirs. Windows Vista was part victim, part instigator of this change. Vista’s low marginal benefit and high cost of migration motivated many desktop planners to raise their eyes from the road and look further ahead.

source: blogs.gartner.com
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