Enterprise Deployment of Windows 7 Will Be Slow
According to media summaries of a new survey commissioned by systems management appliance company KACE, 83 percent of the IT decision makers who responded said they will skip Windows Vista and go directly to Windows 7. However, just 17 percent of the survey’s respondents said they are slating their migrations to take place within 12 months of Windows 7′s official release.
Still, the survey results are not nearly as big a surprise as they may appear at first blush. “It’s hard for any large organization to deploy a new OS in the first 12 months after its release,” noted Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Michael Silver. “It takes many (software providers) the better part of the year to say they’ll support their app on a new OS, and it’s not till then that organizations can really begin their deployments.”
A Big Chance For Success
One initial complaint about Windows Vista was its perceived lack of stability. This time around, Microsoft is heavily relying on the feedback it receives from Windows 7 beta testers to ensure that the new OS is stable and secure right out of the starting gate.
“We’ve had millions of people install and use the beta since January,” noted the Windows 7 test team. “The feedback and telemetry have been of tremendous value as we finalize the product.”
The first Service Pack for Windows 7 is not necessary for the operating system’s stability and security readiness, Silver said in a Gartner report last month. “However, organizations likely won’t be ready to deploy Windows 7 before SP1 ships, so they will include it in their initial deployments,” he said.
With all the organizations skipping Vista, Windows 7 has a big chance to be very successful, Silver thinks. “But it’s unlikely that large organizations will do large deployments within 12 months of…
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