EnglishWhat CIOs Think About Windows 7
What's your timeline for windows7?
Windows 7 is here for businesses (the consumer release is scheduled for Oct. 22) and holds tantalizing improvements in terms of security, employee productivity, and bandwidth management.
Think about it. Are you really playing it "safe" to stick with stable and trusted friend XP again, despite the fact that it was first released eight years ago? Consider that this safe haven is an operating system from another era, particularly in terms of security, and is losing Microsoft support. Still, just 16% of companies plan to implement Windows 7 within a year, our InformationWeek Analytics survey of 1,414 business technology pros finds, while just over a third have no plans...
Application compatibility looks much further along than at the same point in Vista's release, but it remains a major concern: It's the second biggest barrier to upgrading, according to InfromationWeek analytic survey survey. After all, Windows 7 was built on the same code base as Vista, so if an application still doesn't work on Vista today, it more than likely won't work on Windows 7.
