IT Admins Welcome Windows 7 with Open Arms
IT Admins Welcome Windows 7 with Open Arms
Posted 03/11/2010 at 5:22am
| by Paul Lilly
7
Comments
Print
What a difference an OS makes. Whereas those in charge of IT took a very cautious approach to Vista, Windows 7 is enjoying a much warmer reception and more rapid adoption rate.
"We have 50 percent of our users, that's 2,500 machines, deployed on Windows 7 in 2010," said Jim Thomas, CIO at Pella.
By the end of next year, Thomas says that number will likely rise to 90 percent. That's quite the contrast to Vista, in which some 80 percent of IT organizations shunned, according to Gartner.
There are big benefits to be had in moving to Windows 7, suggests Thomas, who says that upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 has resulted in a 80 percent reduction in the number of system images he'll need.
"It has to do with drivers and Windows 7 being able to understand and adapt to them versus having a specific image built," Thomas explained.
IT execs are also drawn to Windows 7's faster boot times, though the redesigned task bar can go either way, depending on who you ask.
More like this
hades_2100
March 11, 2010 at 3:35pm
What's with the love of bootup/shutdown times? Seriously, the better the OS is, the less frequently you do this. And even then you're talking about a single MINUTE.
On my machines, I encounter this about once every other week. Not a metric I'm concerned about.
FrancesTheMute
March 11, 2010 at 1:46pm
We were ready to start rolling out Win7 last fall but our corporate IT told us we couldn't yet. We were going to start using it on new machines only, not retroactively putting it on older machines. Everyone in our IT office is running it on our work machines, but no users have it yet. Hopefully this year we can finally get the go-ahead to roll it out.
logicmaster2003
March 11, 2010 at 1:19pm
I totally agree. I love win7 myself; been running it for 2 days now. I love the fast bootup and fast shutdown and not to mention it detected all my hardware + all my games seems to run so much faster and looks heck alot nicer ! Thanks to directx10.x + ! I've been on directx 9.0c (winXP) for way too long.
Keith E. Whisman
March 11, 2010 at 6:47am
Actually it should say "What a difference Positive Press Makes"
nekollx
March 11, 2010 at 9:39am
Actually win 7 is pretty nice. you don't need drivers 90% of the time cause 7 findsd them on it's own. I fact when i set up our new family PC i set up a RAID 1 and it didn't even need drivers, it recoized the RAID right off the bat
------------------------------
Coming soon to Lulu.com --Tokusatsu Heroes--
Five teenagers, one alien ghost, a robot, and the fate of the world.
riopato
March 11, 2010 at 9:31am
IT people usually aren't influenced by press. Mostly by the technology itself. If your statement where accurate many companies would be running Mac.
Connect with MaximumPC
Featured Content
We introduce Intel's latest class of tablet killers and review 4 of the first Ultra...
Where have all the memorable videogame enemies gone?
This month's issue
Feature
11 Hardware Hacks
Feature
Overclock Your CPU
How-To
Supercharge Your Smartphone
Build It
A Powerful $830 Rig
Most Commented Articles
Latest Max PC Tweets
- maximumpc: Analysts: 9-Inch Kindle Fire This Summer http://t.co/QDYApwCZ1 day 1 hour ago
- maximumpc: Micron: DRAM Prices Likely as Low as They're Going to Get http://t.co/fFUWuFOm1 day 4 hours ago
- maximumpc: Yar, Mateys! All Of Pirate Bay Made Available As A Single 90MB Zip File http://t.co/j5LHlXEZ1 day 5 hours ago
