Using Windows 7 for choking tactics to Upgrade to Windows Vista

Microsoft VP Mike Nash has written a white paper about risks related to skipping Windows Vista and waiting for Windows 7.

The major points are as follows:

1. Implications for security, support, and regulatory compliance and reduce flexibility in the face of changing business requirements.
2. By not deploying Windows Vista, it means missing out on the proven benefits such as better security, productivity, search, mobility, manageability and infrastructure optimization.
3. 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.

These items presented by Nash would definitely make a lot of people of angry, it’s like choking Windows XP users into switching to Windows Vista.

Nash said (Number 3 above) people would experience the same problems if they move to Windows 7 from XP, similar to the problems they would encounter when moving to Windows Vista. Why should users upgrade then? Is it guaranteed that users would not have any problems when upgrading from Vista to Windows 7? Some users may argue that they would rather experience one upgrade problem than two problems in the next year or so.

Nash should have done a better job convincing people to upgrade to Vista by offering major discounts when upgrading to Windows 7 instead of emphasizing issues and problems.