bfusco1

Just a little poll. I'm wondering where people are in terms of Vista upgrades (or lack of them). If you could respond to the poll and tell me a little bit about your environment and the reasons for your choice, that would be great.

Thanks,
Brendan

skakid

The decision at our organization has been made to stay with XP as long as we can. Who knows how long that will be.

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almanza

Staying on XP - originally we had planned on a vista rollout and were ready to go on the OS side but various 3rd party software vendors along with internal apps were not vista ready so instead we rolled out new hardware with xp and office 2007

jenifer.arnold

We are sticking with XP until we find a new Windows OS we like. Vista just didn't work in an enterprise model for us.

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bfusco1

Thanks for the answers so far - keep 'em coming. My organization (a university) is currently trying to decide what to do for the next school year, 2009-2010, and I just want to see where other people are at.

dominique

We're staying on XP, there were some plan for Vista but just to keep some testers busy, the number of Applications not ready for Vista and also the change for the internal legacy applications do not allow a change before awhile, so who knows what will be there in 2015...

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SLam

Staying with XP, Vista just ain't ready for Enteprise rollouts. Which is a shame because we already have a Vista KMS.

andrewro

Definitely not switching to Vista - and as Windows 7 is Just Vista with more Bugs, probably will wait until we cannot get XP anymore.

bdub310

We have no plans to move to Vista in the near future. I have a feeling we will stay with XP until it's no longer supported.

mmagruder

If I remember correctly XP isnt supported any longer, and for what its worth you might as well get at least a couple of Dev pc's for the aspect of testing. Microsoft has already said that if it works on vista it will work on 7.

Lorribot

Were staying with XP for two reasons, no one in IT likes Vista or sees the point of upgarding (bitlocker on laptops is the exception, but has its problems) and our users are Ludites and wouldn't handle the change too well without lots of training and hand holding which we don't have the budget or time for . For the same reason we still use Office 2003 though I personally use and prefer 2007.

rdvanorman

Staying with XP until??? Too many legacy apps that just won't run on Vista.

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DougRobertson

I have a couple of machines with Vista and the last company I worked for was 100% Vista ... got to admit that I like it.

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iangp

We have elected to stick with XP for as long as possible. However, some of our suppliers are getting sticky about supplying XP.
If I had it my way, we also would not have moved to Office 2007, it's great on the whole, but it doesn't play so nicely with some things; ColdFusion being one of them.

jharings

I personally enjoy the Windows Mojave experience.

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tmsmith2

Will see how that works.

pascal_kotte

Working with a few companies on Switzerland (French part), I can say no one plan to move Vista...
From 1500 clients, to 250 clients, all are freeze on XP...

The worst for Microsoft, customers will migrate next revision because no more choice from PC builder... They will go Windows 7 anyway for this reason...

It is not good think, company should migrate to get improvements, at last to improve their security.
A lot of "government & education like" are also thinking "open OS" in there. But no one will go, because of too much "Applications support" missing...

I make this divination: next following upgrade (after 7) will not be any more MS-Windows for some. Part customers will go to VDI & Open OS low cost clients: The combination of VDI + Terminal + SOA (with SaaS & DaaS) will kill the "heavy Windows Workstations"... But don't panic for those love MS, Windows light clients will also be available like WinPE?

So next (r)evolution will really back to "lightweight terminals"? An "Upsizing" after the "downsizing" (for those remember IBM/SNA) Wait and see ?

Lorribot

Net computers have often been mooted but never seem to arrive. Many have tried the Citrix route and have been burnt. So it can be a difficult sell.

I used to work in a school that had Windows 3.11 running in RAM on 286 PCs downloaded off a OS/2 286 server which worked quite well. It would fly on modern hardware and networks such as HP's terminals even with a cut down version of Windows Vista such as PE.
They would be less knickable as well, still I don't think we will ever prise the laptops from the pretend managers, even if we gave the no lifes a Blackberry or similar for them to get their fix of self importance.

pascal_kotte

Just provide Managers High cost "net computers" to fix the "self importance" issue... (if I understand well, My English is not good enough). But no matter, also Macintosh will be compatible VDI. But you are right, such a long time the Press announce the end of the PC against Lightweight NetPC... Not the end of the PC, never, how can we play without? I do not say next, but after next: 7 is for 2009, XP from 2003... Well, let me guess around 2012 not before. I said only a few customers will start, and not for every workstations... Bot for sure, I am sure of nothing, except I will die a day... Hope not before 2012 ;-)
If Altiris is making more & more miracles in terms of Workstation management, VDI will not be cheaper...

Lorribot

Macs compatible with something, now there would be a first.