The only one that has any appeal is the last one, and even that is practically meaningless for most corporations out there that are already managing 7 desktops just fine.
I'm really beginning to question if you actually have much experience in the industry. This sounds exactly like something a PC tech who spends their day ghosting images onto users computers and completing service tickets would say. Just fine is never the end of it, or the computer industry wouldn't be so booming. Anything that can lower costs, make wholesalers more effective, reduce downtime and waiting, etc. is a big deal for corporations. Why are there support techs and help desks? Things break, software doesn't work right, and problems occur. If everything were perfect, there would be no need for a help desk. Most corporations have a handle on IT, yet nearly all of them are actively seeking something better. There's a reason companies like IBM and Red Hat are always improving their middleware and releasing new versions with new features. The old versions of the middleware does it's job just fine for 99% of the clients, yet clients keep buying new versions because it offers more features, more control and more manageability. Lots of companies have updated their datacenter operations. The old setup was fine, yet plenty of companies regularly buy new hardware and recruit new talent, move to virtualization or the cloud, etc. because despite their old setup working the new setup has things that contribute favorably to the bottom line. If 'existing' was good enough, at some point companies would hit equilibrium and everything would just plateau. Nobody would need anything else. We'd have gotten an OS, or an RDBMS, or a middleware, or an application framework, or a piece of hardware that does everything the company could ever need and that would be the end of it. IT would be licensing fees and an electric bill. But since for literally every company in the world, IT isn't just licensing fees and an electric bill, better is relevant.
Now, whether these features alone would be enough to warrant upgrading everything to Windows 8, I'd agree that most companies wouldn't think so. But to say better manageability is irrelevant is fundamentally out of touch with the business world. Better manageability always has an ROI, and anything with an ROI is meaningful.
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