Are you planning to roll out Windows 7, and why/why not?

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Interested to hear why yous plan to roll it out?

 

Over vista, definetely. better performance and seems more stable and that's it in beta. But heard the security isnt as tight, anyone else know about this?

 

only thing i heard security wise was the new UAC could be turned off without the user knowing, making it quite useless. I believe they have updated it for future releases so that there is now a confirm dialog when you change the UAC level.

 

No one's mentioned a peep where I work. Of course, all of the developers and network guys run Linux. I think one of the research guys and the admin staff all use XP, though.

 

Rumored to start early next year, planning to by pass Vista altogether apparently.

Strange behavior from M$ though, support apparently ends for xp pro on 14/04/2009, but according to this article M$ are offering the chance for users to downgrade to Vista or XP!

Vista I can understand, but XP! why offer downgrade privilege to a product which is end of life (as far as M$ are concerned)

 

Support for XP will continue until 2014. At that point I might consider upgrading wherever I'm working. Until MS give me a legitimate reason to do so, there is no chance in hell I'm moving any of my lUsers away from the most stable 'normal' (i.e. desktop) O/S I've ever seen. Ditto Server 2003 vs Server 2008 - no benefit whatsoever to be gained from migrating to 2K8 other than NAP and RODCs (neither of which is of massive benefit for most companies)

 

Like Ken, I also work in a school. The hardware takes quite a bit of wear and tear, so gets refreshed quite often. Think of a standard workstation, used by say a purchase ledger clerk. He/She comes to work at 9:00, powers the computer up, goes of to get a coffee, then logs in whilst organising the days work ahead. He / She then operates the computer at various times through the day, and dutifully logs off and shuts down at 5:00. Being an adult, they treat the equipment with respect, as they have to use it day in, day out.

Take that same machine, put it in a school, and let 11 - 18 year olds at it. It gets cold-booted five times a day, used intensively during each hour long session, and there is much less ownership of the PC. Wear and tear dictates that it gets replaced more frequently. As a result, PC specs increase, as hardware costs drop. This gives (some) schools more opportunity to use the latest OS's, compared with the purchasing clerk, whose IT dept. have no other reason to update the PC other than for a new OS. That alone, unless there were significant reasons, such as security or the ability to run some sort of specialist software, is not enough to persuade the money people to release funds for shiny new PC's.

Where I am, we are still using XP, and have been planning and testing a network migration for this summer, and have opted for XP, rather than Vista, for a number of reasons. My personal preference is that we skip Vista, and go straight for Windows 7. This will save us having to move over twice, and in our own experience, 7 performs so much better than Vista. I run it in a VM, allocated it 512MB Ram, and allowed it to use one of my cores on a 2GHz Core II Duo, and it was more than usable. I didn't get all the pretty effects, I needed to install natively for that, but was able to run office, Internet Explorer and a few Dev tools with no speed problems.

So, to answer the question, We might look at it, when its officially released, as long as it's compatible with all our apps, and the group policies are adequate. In terms of hardware, by the time it's released, and maybe had a service pack, all our hardware will be up to spec.

Maria

 

Is my memory playing tricks or did most places bypass 2000 Pro and instead upgraded from NT4 to XP? If so then isn't this just the same sort of scenario? MS releases a new OS then immediatly announces that they are developing another.

 

When I started at the council in 2005 they were upgrading from NT4 to XP SP2...obviously it was quite a hit for those who needed digital cameras for their jobs as their USB ports suddenly became usable LOL!