Windows 7 50% of IT professionals won't upgrade pa
 

It’s a credit to Windows XP is so solidly entrenched in enterprise that after a decade’s lifespan even the all-time fastest-selling OS on Earth Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, Windows 7 Buy Windows 7, can’t seem to break its fingers and wrestle it aside… but that stubborn refusal to move on is costing Microsoft and billions in support fees.
Why won’t enterprise customers move on to Windows 7? Expensive corporate intranets that they can’t risk having go down even for a day in a company-wide migration. Windows XP works Office 2010, and no one wants to screw around with something that works when there’s millions of dollars on the line.
That’s why it’s no surprise that a study by Dimensional Research polling 950 IT professionals showed that half of those surveyed wouldn’t upgrade their company’s computers to Windows XP by April 2014, the month Microsoft has announced it will officially cease support for XP.
Got that? Half of all IT decision makers are saying that there’s no way they’ll update past XP even three years from now. This despite the fact that once Microsoft stops supporting XP Office Pro, the operating system is going to immediately become vulnerable to malware and viruses.
Yeesh. What monster has Microsoft created here? It’s like IE6 Microsoft Office Standard, a gimped dog of a web browser that just won’t seem to go down no matter how many bullets are fired into it. Time to nuke from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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