«This means that a lot of companies will be looking at doing an update either to Vista or Windows 7 in the rather narrow window between 2011 and mid-2013. Given that many of these same companies will find the average age of their PC fleet will have grown by 2011, there will be pressure to update a lot more machines as part of a migration during the 2011—2013 period,» he said.
Microsoft is certainly not encouraging anyone to wait.
«We recommend they deploy Windows Vista to both take advantage of its benefits and to get their applications ready for Windows 7,» said a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement e-mailed to InternetNews.com.
«While we know that enterprise customers will want to complete thorough compatibility testing with any new operating system, the transition to Windows 7 should be much more straightforward if they move to Windows Vista in the interim,» the company concluded.
Shim believes there will be some corporate buying for Windows 7, and they won't wait for the first service pack to be released, which is usually what happens. In the past, businesses would test a new OS, but not distribute it until the first service pack came out, usually one year after the OS is released.
«The short time frame between Vista and Windows 7 has given commercial buyers a reason to hold off,» he said. «That as well as the economy, and we haven't seen a refresh cycle in a while. My feeling is adoption for Windows 7 will be pretty quick, because a lot of what they tried to accomplish with Vista will be in 7.»
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