It is Silly to Wait for Windows 7
July 31, 2007 by Milo Riano
Filed under Microsoft, Windows Vista
Do you really want to wait for Windows 7 instead of upgrading to Windows Vista? What if there were more problems in Windows 7? What if the date slips again. What if it takes two years for Windows 7 to stabilize after its release?
Think about this. By the time you decide to upgrade to Windows 7, you would be coming from a ten to 12 year old Windows XP. This is not going to be that bad for home users; but for businesses, this is going to be an unecessary and reckless risk. The investment upfront could be so huge that businesses can find it much harder to upgrade than if they do it right now.
IT departments should take upgrading to Windows XP seriously and instead of whining, they should figure out ways to get Windows Vista installed and implemented the easiest and most cost effective for their business.
For IT manages and decision makers, don’t be silly and upgrade to Windows Vista.
Wow, what a great argument for “upgrading” to windows vista! Quick upgrade now, since if you wait for windows 7, you might be disappointed by a product that’s even worse!
Milo, the issue is that companies spend HUGE amounts of money for custom applications. Some of these apps are essential to their business and if they also happen to be in healthcare and/or manufacturing painstaking and rigorous testing has to be completed for ANY change, no matter how seemingly insignificant.
Back in the day when in IT at a large pharma company we had laptops running Win98 and 95 … desktops were on NT. XP? Nope. Because the move to XP would break some needed apps. The cost to make the update was much, much greater than staying a little behind the curve.
So, yes, companies will get to Vista, but waiting a year is just good, prudent IT management.
Heck if a company is on XP … I’d see how Vista SP1 shakes out, then consider upgrades, but only on systems where the benefit is real. Given the hardware requirements of Vista, I expect it will be a long time before we see widespread Vista deployments.
What a pathetic artical, upgrade to vista or get caught out with your pants down possibly in maybe 2 to 3 years time……….. I laughed really hard when I read this, big belly laugh.
Whining, as you put it is what businesses must do especially Small/medium sized ones, to keep themselves in profit, any even slightly technicaly savvy IT dept should be whipped silly for even contemplating putting this garbage anywhere near a PC.
Please stop commenting on technical issues far out of your depth, your giving the rest of us professionals a bad name.
Nice Specious reasoning. I remember someone trying to push that same tripe on me with windows ME. GET ME now! You dont want to wait 5 years for Windows 2000.
If you recall ME was a disaster too.
Glad I didnt listen then. Not listening now. The only time Ill upgrade my OS is when the bugs from a current OS are fixed and its no longer a clunky resource hog.
The only reason I would consider installing VISTA now is for Bioshock. But the whole directx 10 for vista only really gets to me (yeah I know abou the hacks to make it run for XP)
Also, the fact that most third party applications are not working, or not working as well under VISTA is a huge factor.
If you recall, most of the world is still using windows 98/2000/XP. The only time you have security issues with a computer are when the end users are not educated on security and/or no spyware/virus/firewalls are installed. With the lastest virus scanners/firewalls an old OS is almost as secure as a new one. In any case I would rather go with an older OS with known exploits I can account for rather than VISTA with its new undiscovered bugs and exploits.