Mojave Experiment

[Kulaf]

Sure there is. I have yet to work at a shop that upgrades to every new OS that Microsoft puts out. If you have a working stable XP installation then there is no reason to upgrade to Vista when there is a new OS coming out in less that two years. The ROI would never pass muster.

[Ddrak]

Sure there is. I have yet to work at a shop that upgrades to every new OS that Microsoft puts out. If you have a working stable XP installation then there is no reason to upgrade to Vista when there is a new OS coming out in less that two years. The ROI would never pass muster.

Most enterprises are only just planning migrations to XP from 2k at the moment. Why wouldn't they switch to Vista instead? Similarly, if you're on XP pre-sp2 as your corporate platform, why wouldn't you consider moving to Vista instead of taking pretty much the same pain going to sp2 or sp3?

Your assumption of a "working stable XP installation" is pretty much a bad one. The average enterprise is a complete mash-up of everything from Win95 to Vista, so you'll see some uptake of Vista which increases as time goes by and Windows 7 will have the same 1-2 year lag before anyone in Enterprise-land bothers to use it.

Remember, Enterprises (typically the bigger ones) were still *migrating* to Win2k even 3 years after XP had been released. They will still migrate to Vista years after Windows 7 has been released. It's all about knowing what's a stable platform, and by the time it's been out 4 years (ie 2010) then it will be the stable one and the new one will be the risk.

Yes, some will skip Vista just as some will skip XP and some will skip Windows 7. Happens all the time. I really don't understand everyone thinking Vista is any different to the previous 15 years of PC operating systems because all indications seem to be saying it's exactly the same pattern.

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[Ickhor]

I'll agree that it's just like it was with Win2k->XP, and that there isn't anything bad about Vista that makes it this way. I was just trying to illustrate that enterprises aren't switching yet because the cost isn't worth the reward. Eventually, XP won't be supported anymore, so it's not a matter of if but when, but right now there is just no reason.


But a transition from XPSP1->XPSP2 or even XPSP1->XPSP2+Checkpoint Endpoint Security (or similar) is a hell of a lot easier and cheaper than a transition from XP to Vista.