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Windows 7 Doesn’t Look Very Promising
Through Quest Software’s ScriptLogic, Microsoft surveyed 1100 IT administrators about their new OS, Windows 7. The survey was made up of just four questions and two breakdown questions.
Windows 7 was announced to become publicly available on October 22nd of this year. The survey from ScripLogic Corporation suggests that the majority of IT administrators may not want to adopt Windows 7 as their operating system. Results show that 59% of IT administrators have no plans of using Windows 7 at all and 34% are planning to convert to Windows 7 by the end of 2010. The 1,100 responses came from pool of 20,000 surveys originally sent out. The survey also reveals that the top spending cuts made by companies are skipped upgrades and delayed purchases, which sheds some light on the high number of administrators planning to skip the Windows 7 upgrade.
The current economic situation is probably a great contributor to these results. Time and resources was the number one barrier for adopting Windows 7 as an operating system with almost 43% of respondents agreeing. Just behind time and resources, application compatibility is another great barrier for using Windows 7, with a 39% response.
Windows 7’s predecessor, Windows Vista, did not live up to the hype it had created before its launch back in January of 2007. Windows 7, however, is already receiving good reviews from outside sources. It is easy to speculate that this worthy product might not get the sales it deserves because of the economy.
