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(Unverified)Nov 2nd 2010 5:11AM

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To migrate a few PCs in a small enterprise not focused on IT development, or also, in whatever sector medium-big enterprises, translates into a significative cost.

For a very big part of the enterprises (I would say much more than the other 52%) there are no significative advantages for day-to-day usage of W7 over XP. In fact there are big disadvantages, as users are not used to it, and would generate more cases (so IT administrators must first install the new OS and later explain/resolve the new problems). I work in a medium-sized enterprise, dedicated to IT, and believe me, not everyone reads DS. There will be always people disturbing IT admins about quite-trivial things, and if you change them the OS, much much more ("I used this program that now i can't install"..."my outlook"...blablabla...unending).

So also, apart from old PCs, as the previous comment #11 says, for enterprises loss/gains is the most important, and if they have to buy new copies of the OS, also invest a big money in the migration and support...they must see very big advantages to assume that cost, which I think personally they don't see, and prefer the most-secure and cheaper option of just "mantain what is working".

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