No Bullet Proof Transition to Windows 7
February 13, 2009 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Microsoft senior director Gavriella Schuster says that migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 is no bullet-proof and enterprise would find it as difficult as upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista given that Windows 7 and Vista both have the same codebase.
In an excerpt: “Moving from XP to Windows 7 is not a magic bullet,” said Gavriella Schuster, a senior director of Windows product management, in an interview Tuesday. “You have the same level of application compatibility from XP to Windows Vista or Windows 7.”
Enterprise customers who would have had to replace applications in a move from XP to Vista will still have the same task when they move to Windows 7, she said. However, if customers have already made the leap to Vista, it will be easier to move applications to Windows 7 because it’s on essentially the same code base, she said.
In a company blog post attributed to Schuster, Microsoft made recommendations to business customers to help them decide whether they should upgrade to Vista now or wait for Windows 7, which is expected later this year or, at the latest, early next year.
I think it’s not only migration that is the problem for enterprise but primarily the cost of upgrading the hardware. Windows 7 is said to run in netbooks and this should be a good reason for enterprise to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 without additional cost on hardware. Unlike Windows Vista, cost in hardware is too much for enteprise at this time.
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