I love Windows 7, I think it is fantastic and happily replaced my main machine with it over XP I was using before.
But.
Problem is XP was still pretty solid. Ignoring the issues of it being less secure and not having as much eye candy most businesses don't need all that stuff. Most businesses have their XP terminals behind a dirty great big industrial server with super-duper firewalls up the kazoo and expensive corporate virus protection. So couple that with the fact that most office based businesses dont need eye-candy or even support for things like Drag & Drop DVD Writing and do nothing more complicated than run MS Office and a call logging program then you have a recipe for never needing to upgrade.
Ever.
There are industrial/manufacturing companies out there with machines that are still running on old DOS programs on green-screen VDUs and dot-matrix printers because that is all they will ever need for the uncomplicated task they do.
This is no differant and until the office-world has a need to move away from XP it will never happen.
All it means is that home users will continue to have vastly superior systems than the piles of junk that they log into when they go into work the next day.
But.
Problem is XP was still pretty solid. Ignoring the issues of it being less secure and not having as much eye candy most businesses don't need all that stuff. Most businesses have their XP terminals behind a dirty great big industrial server with super-duper firewalls up the kazoo and expensive corporate virus protection. So couple that with the fact that most office based businesses dont need eye-candy or even support for things like Drag & Drop DVD Writing and do nothing more complicated than run MS Office and a call logging program then you have a recipe for never needing to upgrade.
Ever.
There are industrial/manufacturing companies out there with machines that are still running on old DOS programs on green-screen VDUs and dot-matrix printers because that is all they will ever need for the uncomplicated task they do.
This is no differant and until the office-world has a need to move away from XP it will never happen.
All it means is that home users will continue to have vastly superior systems than the piles of junk that they log into when they go into work the next day.