Added Rob Enderle, principal analyst with The Enderle Group, «There is a lot of aging hardware in the market, particularly in the large business space which is waiting for a trigger. Windows 7 could be that trigger and feedback from companies is that they are optimistically looking forward to driving deployments with it.»
Predictions are clouded by the economy, not to mention guessing when Windows 7 will really ship. «It's not the sort of answer I could say 'yes' or 'no' to,» said Richard Shim, research manager for IDC's Personal Computing program. «There are significant variables and right now we don't have definitive visibility to say [[Windows 7's impact].»
Steve Kleynhans, vice president in the Client Platforms Group at Gartner, was probably the most bearish on the consumer impact. «It is unlikely that an OS on its own won't outweigh consumer concerns about the economy, so we aren't expecting it to have a major impact this year,» he said in an e-mail to InternetNews.com.
Baker also has two cautionary points: the first is that despite the great buzz for Windows 7 on the Internet, the vast majority of consumers have much bigger concerns right now. «This is not on their radar today. Come the end of the year, if this is available, we'll have something to talk about,» he said.
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