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The results of a new survey suggest that businesses are planning the move to Windows 7 soon. I guess IT departments are starting to realize you can’t stay on Win XP forever.

A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year.
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This is true, though we are far from upgrading from Windows XP our CIO told me in a conversation that from what he has seen in regards to Windows 7, it's obvious that we will be making the jump straight to it from XP sometime in the future.
 
It's because the response to Windows 7 is a resounding 'yes' across the board. People finally want to install it on their systems. My IT school is getting ready to make the move.
 
I am the senior tech at my small company (3k employees, 1.5k computers). Create the image, test OS, deployments etc....

It's tough to get the resources for an OS upgrade (probably a year project) but if/when we do, we will skip Vista and go Win7.
 
Here, at an unnamed aerospace company, we're moving from XP to Win7 and skipping an actual deployment of Vista. The problem with a company as large as ours is, it's really slow to roll out and many of the hours and dollars spent on vista testing go down the drain. IMO its the correct move though.
 
Any new machines we get will have W7, old systems will retain XP.
 
Derfman said:
This is true, though we are far from upgrading from Windows XP our CIO told me in a conversation that from what he has seen in regards to Windows 7, it's obvious that we will be making the jump straight to it from XP sometime in the future.
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I fall in this same category. I will probably do an actual backflip at my desk when we make the switch.
 
We are also a large corporation that has had minimal Vista use since XP and we are jumping right on the Win7 bandwagon w/o a second though.
 
Kenworth said:
I fall in this same category. I will probably do an actual backflip at my desk when we make the switch.
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Yeah my company is doing the same thing. We like what we see with Win7 but switching from XP to it will be a long ways away. Only way they will make the switch is when PC's catch on fire and we have to replace them.
 
Around 250 employees here.
We are moving to Win7 right now.
New PCs are Win7, we will migrate older boxes later this year.
We are lucky, none of our apps are picky about OS.
 
PyroHoltz said:
Here, at an unnamed aerospace company, we're moving from XP to Win7 and skipping an actual deployment of Vista. The problem with a company as large as ours is, it's really slow to roll out and many of the hours and dollars spent on vista testing go down the drain. IMO its the correct move though.
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I work at a large bank and we were in the same boat. We were starting a Vista deployment and decided to wait for 7 however much of the Vista testing is still relevant. The Vista testing is only going to help us.
 
Are you guys crazy?
all the big multi-story building firms I worked for are still using WINDOWS NT!!
and we even had 2 PENTIUM I! and they work better than P4s.
"switching From XP" is just a wet dream, and I don't think they'll get rid of NT for quite some time either.
 
Way ahead of them! When Vista and 7 came out, I ordered laptops with them pre-installed and opt not to include the downgrade disks and fees.

But then again I do not have OS-specific business software in my company. Citrix app server is browser-specific (which works on all browsers so far), and Oracle Primavera is Java-based.
 
crazian said:
Are you guys crazy?
all the big multi-story building firms I worked for are still using WINDOWS NT!!
and we even had 2 PENTIUM I! and they work better than P4s.
"switching From XP" is just a wet dream, and I don't think they'll get rid of NT for quite some time either.
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How the heck could a troll like you get away with trolling for 3 years? LOL.
 
We will begin moving to Win7 from XP by the end of the year... moving to Exchange 2010 first. About 1500 employees in the US.
 
PyroHoltz said:
Here, at an unnamed aerospace company, we're moving from XP to Win7 and skipping an actual deployment of Vista. The problem with a company as large as ours is, it's really slow to roll out and many of the hours and dollars spent on vista testing go down the drain. IMO its the correct move though.
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Same here. We'll finally get rid of this godawful IE6 and XP SP3 once and for all... :D

So, for the looks of it, most companies will take the plunge to Win7!

heatlesssun said:
I work at a large bank and we were in the same boat. We were starting a Vista deployment and decided to wait for 7 however much of the Vista testing is still relevant. The Vista testing is only going to help us.
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That sounds VERY familiar... I used to work at a large bank corporation who was supposed to deploy Win Vista by the end of Q2, this year!
 
My company just announced that we are upgrading form XP to Win7. Most of our internal apps are web based so the only problems we should have is with some of the older computers. And yes I am using IE6 to type this :p
 
MH Knights said:
Most of our internal apps are web based so the only problems we should have is with some of the older computers. And yes I am using IE6 to type this :p
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Same here, except most-- scratch that, ALL of the web apps we use here work ONLY on IE6... IE7, IE8 and Firefox are completely out of the question :p

I'd be nice if they could port everything to IE9, sorta to "future-proof" the web apps...
 
my company just gave us an upgrade to vista... and we'll be stuck on it for at least the next 6-7 years at the minimum....

ah well
 
I work for a very large worldwide company and we are making the switch to Windows 7. 32 bit for laptops and desktops, 64bit for our CAD workstations.

Should be interesting. Most of the users I support aren't much for change. So I'll be answering a ton of dumb everyday Windows 7 questions I'm sure.

I'm not involved in migrating anything from XP to 7, but from what I've heard, it's been a real pain in the butt with a lot of applications.
 
I have a feeling XP will hang in there for at least a couple more years as I don't see the need to switch users off of it when it's working just fine. New systems coming into the stream I think will mostly be 7 I would imagine.

The hours invested in Vista thus far I don't think are wasted. Most of that knowledge/tech will transfer to 7, and I wouldn't bother changing users that already have Vista to 7 unless there was a real need for it. Now if you have blanket licensing for 7, then that's another story. Might as well put everyone on the same OS.
 
paco said:
I'm not involved in migrating anything from XP to 7, but from what I've heard, it's been a real pain in the butt with a lot of applications.
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For poorly written apps which is unfortunately a lot of them, yes it can be a pain. For well written apps, even older ones, compatibility with 7 is much less of a problem.
 
I'm on 64bit XP. I'd KILL for 64bit 7 (or vista) for the better memory management.
 
paco said:
I work for a very large worldwide company and we are making the switch to Windows 7. 32 bit for laptops and desktops, 64bit for our CAD workstations.

Should be interesting. Most of the users I support aren't much for change. So I'll be answering a ton of dumb everyday Windows 7 questions I'm sure.

I'm not involved in migrating anything from XP to 7, but from what I've heard, it's been a real pain in the butt with a lot of applications.
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Yeah, the users will probably be the biggest challenge once the application side is ironed out. Applications are usually predictable :p
 
Our company is building a windows 7 standard image 10K+ people.

Biggest issues are going to lack of IE6 and jinitiator. But hopefully this will help push us off old custom made apps that rely on IE6 and jinitiator.

I have been using windows 7 64bit on my work computer but I am in IT so I can do pretty much what ever I want to my computer. The grunts on the other hand the the standard image.
 
My employer, CB Richard Ellis, is making the move sometime sometime relatively soon it seems. Some people already have it, actually.
 
we drank the Vista kool-aid really early. I can't say we had any major issues with it. We're now in the middle of our Windows 7 roll out. All new machines are Optiplex 960's with E8500's, 4GB of RAM and 4670 video cards. For awhile my workstation was better than my home PC lol
 
If your IT dept was doing it's job, they should have spent Vista's timeframe making sure everything worked correctly so 7 should be pretty seamless. It was continuously hammered in during it's time that it was the way things were going to be done from here on out so if they stuck their heads in the sand over getting things compatible it's going to be pretty bumpy over the next couple of years.
 
Wow. Our company is also making the jump from XP to Windows 7, and fast. We are testing it now, and will hopefully have a roll-out by mid-summer (roughly 800 PCs). We are really liking what we are seeing with Win7.

Mainly because of the group policy and AD from an administration standpoint using Server 2008 R2. Alot of things we did with registry edits in XP are done with GPs now. The biggest hurdle is getting some of our in-house software rock-solid with Win7. The other thing is our data migration from our Novell servers to an all Windows environment.
 
My company builds software to support other companies' infrastructures. As such, we may end up waiting for a critical mass of customer upgrades before doing it ourselves.

Most of our day-to-day administration apps are already in the cloud so hopefully we can upgrade sooner and use lab machines to support the slowpokes on older OSes.
 
tuksonrider said:
Wow. Our company is also making the jump from XP to Windows 7, and fast. We are testing it now, and will hopefully have a roll-out by mid-summer (roughly 800 PCs). We are really liking what we are seeing with Win7.

Mainly because of the group policy and AD from an administration standpoint using Server 2008 R2. Alot of things we did with registry edits in XP are done with GPs now. The biggest hurdle is getting some of our in-house software rock-solid with Win7. The other thing is our data migration from our Novell servers to an all Windows environment.
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Wow doing a server platform migration at the same time...

We still love novell, well at least most of their products. Zenworks is awesome and GroupWise, though a pain for simple stuff like mobile devices is really easy to maintain.

When we go Win7 we will be integrating our workstations to AD, replacing Novell's DLU... way to many apps rely on AD for authentication these days to NOT run at least a mirrored AD directory.
 
anthrex said:
Also are you guys moving over to W7 64 or 32 bit?
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Running mostly running XP 32 bit, with some Vista (both32 & 64 bit) with our software developers & support people.

Once Windows 7 came out, the developers mostly moved to Windows 7 64 bit, since they have the hardware to handle it. Any new systems I buy (still waiting for Dell to bring out more business systems based on the i5/i7 chips) will be Windows 7 & 64 bit, just like any new servers will be 2008/64 bit.

Most the existing desktops will stay XP until they are replaced. Will likely reimage some of the newer laptops to Windows 7 64 bit & redeploy them to the 2nd level users.

Don't plan on any major rollouts until Dell releases the i5/i7 based Lattitudes, and Microsoft releases Office 2010.
 
I work for a large, multi-national law firm and we are going to be using Win 7 64-bit in all our US offices by the end of summer. We are currently on 32-bit XP which we've been using since 2002, when we made the switch from Win95.
 
The good thing is. This gives a lot of chances for new, low level tech support openings. Thats how I view it at least.

Because someone is going to need to assist/support all the trench workers, and hopefully that means people with the skills now, will have a shot at getting foot in doors.

The IT Industry took a beating with layoffs in many area's. The entry level stuff is harder to find now than the high level openings.

With that said, I'm applying for NOC, Support Technician at a phone provider. So hopefully companies start firing up the hiring bus.

Companies sitting on the fence for Windows 7 really shouldn't. Its the best thing MS has produced since Windows 2000, in relation to OS based leaps and reliability over the previous.
 
Fortune 500 company here. IT had announced they were qualifying Vista, but apparently that got shoved under a rug somewhere around the time the economy tanked. PC Re-deployments stopped, most of us are still running P4 based celerons with 512MB RAM, and it's massively painful.

New hires, are finally getting newer Core2 based Dells still with XP.

Announced Win7 is going to roll out and redeployments start again Q3 of this year. Completely skipping Vista.
 
crazian said:
Are you guys crazy?
all the big multi-story building firms I worked for are still using WINDOWS NT!!
and we even had 2 PENTIUM I! and they work better than P4s.
"switching From XP" is just a wet dream, and I don't think they'll get rid of NT for quite some time either.
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I hear ya. There are companies out there that still use Cobol and there advocates who still say that Cobol should still be taught in schools.
 
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