More than half of IT professionals eyeing Windows 8 for deployment

[Guest]

It's like the light bulb analogy. It is possible to make a light bulb to continue working almost forever, but who would make money on selling just one light bulb. You have to purposefully put a life span on the light bulb so you could profit from selling more bulbs. This is the way of Windows, and actually everything else in the free market.

 

[Guest]

"I currently work in IT and can tell you that if I cannot disable that ridiculous metro UI "

"It's really up your business department business heads. Remember you are there to support the organization, not hinder it. If you can't or won't train yourself to learn metro UI, consider yourself "outdated" and standing in the way of progress. Doesn't matter what you or I think, if the people you support ask for it and want it, you are obliged to support it, or find a new job elsewhere, That's the sad truth.

 

[Guest]

"Not to mention that the Metro UI has no REAL benefit for a business user who most likely will be constantly switching between outlook/word/excel and whatever LOB software they use. "

What if it's a business user with a slate 500 tablet? How do you know there is no real benefit for a business user? Because YOU say so?

 

[TorturedChaos]

I still use XP on my main computer at home because I haven't taken the time to switch. So many programs to re-install .

For work we are running on older-ish hardware and I don't think Win7 would run well. Also isn't cheap to buy all the copies for Win7. Also some of our software is kinda old and we are not sure how well it would run Win7.

 

[9Nails]

WHAT?! I use, and love Windows 7.

I downloaded the Dev Beta of Windows 8, and Metro UI had me feeling like a kid on a coin-slot car ride. I felt like something else was in control and I wasn't actually going to get anywhere. Training people on how to use Windows 8 will be a huge learning curve. Especially if I'm not having a good time with it. I'll save my actual judgement for the final version. We'll see how it comes along. Just my initial impression was that the old keyboard and mouse aren't the best interface for this new UI and I'll need a tablet or something touch device with the compliment of home, menu and power keys to get through this upgrade.

 

[edwaruma]

XP is tried and tested, i guess Win7 is following suite. Win8 is good for personal use for now not ideal for bussiness rollout maybe till 3rd service pack

 

[Guest]

Not sure where these half IT pro located? I'm in I.T. and we just migrated to Windows 7, let alone Windows 8. I work in a school with hundred of computers with active directory environment. We can't even move to Win7 fast enough, because of the insufficient hardware requirement for running Windows 7.

 

[Ultraman1966]

God, I think XP needs to die sooner. Don't get me wrong, I was loving it up until Win 7 was released but it needs to go soon. I've worked in a few big companies now and they're still stuck on XP with "trials" of Win 7... 2014 is too far off!