Reports Find IT Poised to Adopt Windows 7 Soon
New surveys show pent up demand for Windows' latest incarnation.
October 20, 2009
By Stuart J. Johnston
Perhaps the belief on the part of Michael Dell and other PC hardware vendors that there is pent-up demand for new PCs isn't just them trying to sell their wares. Two new analysts' reports seem to back up their statements.
According to a worldwide survey by Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC) and Sunbelt Software of
1,500 IT decision makers released Monday, 49 percent said they will migrate to Windows 7 within a year of Thursday's formal launch.
An additional 11 percent said they will wait for the first service pack before adopting Windows 7. However,
only 40 percent say they have no current plans to migrate to the new system, according to ITIC Principal Analyst Laura DiDio, who authored the study.
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Meanwhile, a second survey by Forrester of 653 PC decision-makers at North American and European enterprises and SMBs found that
66 percent either are planning or expecting to move to Windows 7.
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"Windows 7 will become the
new standard for most commercial PCs within 12 months," said the report, co-authored by analyst Benjamin Gray.
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As far as corporate deployment goes, respondents to the Forrester study said that 38 percent will only bring Windows 7 in-house via new PC purchases, while another 28 percent will update most or all PCs capable of running Windows 7.
All in all, it looks like a number of factors are combining to make the
outlook pretty good for Windows 7.
Last Friday, for instance, IT solution provider Softchoice released a survey it said shows that some 88 percent of the 450,000 corporate PCs it analyzed between November 2008 and August 2009 are capable of running Windows 7. That should grease the wheels for a smoother migration.
Also last week, a report from Jefferies & Company, predicted that
corporate adoption of Windows 7 is likely to begin in earnest sooner rather than later.
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"I think they're [Microsoft] going to do really well here … the sense is that
they got it right this time," DiDio told InternetNews.com.
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