From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:39:57 -0400, mike  wrote:

>Tech professionals at the businesses surveyed were asked the following
>question: "When, if ever, does your company plan to purchase and install
>Windows Vista?"

  I was in "big corp" today and asked them about Vista / platform upgrade
plans.   Keep in mind that since Win3.1 days, these guys have been on a 3
year lease / hardware / software upgrade cycle.   Something has changed,
because they are nearing the end of the current 3 year cycle, but have not
even announced plans for a software or hardware upgrade.    Based on their
rollout / deployment planning lead process it will be another 2 years - so
they have extended their lease cycle by 2 years.  On the one hand, I would
think a 5 year lease would be crappy economics.  On the other hand, you
eliminate the disruption of a deployment cycle with little payback, since
most of the security improvements of Vista are obtained for them today on
XP artificially through other policies / methods.

   This is not surprising, since XP seems to fulfull their needs quite well
for the foreseeable future.

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