Survey: Many businesses plan to skip Windows 7

[Robert Charlton]

Survey: Many businesses plan to skip Windows 7 [news.cnet.com]
cnet news
July 12, 2009

Although plenty of businesses skipped Windows Vista, a significant number of corporations have no plans to quickly move to Windows 7, according to a new survey.

The survey, which received feedback from 1,000 IT administrators, found that nearly 60 percent have no current plan to adopt Windows 7. The survey, conducted by Quest Software's ScriptLogic unit, received the 1,000 responses from 20,000 surveys it distributed.

[bill]

That makes sense. Public versions of Windows 7 will be available October 22. I haven't heard exactly when the MSDN and Enterprise customers can get their hands on it, but assuming it's around the same time, then there would only be 2 months in 2009 to deploy. I doubt any IT Admin would be willing to jump onboard that early. A lot of them still stick to the old service pack mentality. They vow not to adopt a new MS OS before the first service pack has been released. That would move a lot of corporate adoption of this OS to later in 2010.