IDC rains on Microsoft's parade
Beancounters at IDC say that small businesses won't have
a need to upgrade to the latest Windows 7 operating system.
Research director at IDC, Jean-Marc Annonier said that
from a business perspective, the advantages of deploying Windows 7 and trying
to take advantage of some of the enterprise features is not really there. He said that mall businesses have several versions of
Windows within their IT environment, from early forms of the system to XP and
Vista.
Bringing in something new could stuff up their
applications and peripherals, from printers and web cameras to USB
devices. But he said that businesses won't be jumping straight on
to the new operating system in the short term, he says.
Companies will probably leave off upgrades until they
have to buy new hardware and that could be some time.