From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> As for businesses, you are correct for the short term.  Eventually,
> though, licenses for XP (as a simple example) won't be available (from
> their supplier or from their own stock of pre-bought licences).  At that
> point they have to choose whether to support an environment of XP and
> Vista or just Vista.  (OK, there are other possiblities and combinations
> but I am a bear of little brain).  That was all I was trying to say.

I get that but you can still buy NT4pro so obviously that time isn't here
yet for XP so why are 30% of businesses surveyed saying they plan to
upgrade? I don't get it.

I'll tell you a guess though, I would imagine that 30% of the businesses
have IT managers who weren't around in the 1980's and early 90's so they
got their experience just prior or post to Y2K when everyone was upgrading
everything in fear of the Y2K bug. If true then the upgrade treadmill is
all they have ever known and that's the reason it's continuing.

Y2K was a fantastic training aid for the software industry..

Geo.

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