Long time before Windows 7 generates good sales

[dev1ant]

This article was found on http://www.idg.se and is roughly translated from Swedish to English...

It’s been rumored that PC manufacturers and partners will get access to the RTM version of Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows 7 as early as in September in order to get products with the new OS installed out on the market in good time before Christmas, but according to analytics at Gartner it might take as long as 2 years before the OS will generate an impact on sales on a larger scale.

The Global PC market is expected to decrease this year due to the global recession and a weaker demand then expected.

Many hope that Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7 will have the opposite effect, and that the market will be taking off and increase the interest to buy personal computers.

However, Gartner is reporting that there won’t be an immediate increase of sales of Windows 7. Although many companies say they will skip migrating to Vista and go directly to Windows 7, there is no evidence of a rapid transition.

Gartner expects that most companies require between 12 and 18 months to implement a migration strategy. At the best, the new OS will be well spread in the middle of 2011 according to the analysts.

Personally I believe this analysis to be correct; companies won't migrate to Windows 7 in a snap as soon as it gets released.

It will take time for them to plan and implement a hardwearing migration strategy.

[0spinboson]

NOFI, but isn't this 'insight' a bit redundant? This has been the fact, or "common wisdom" (whether it be true or not seems to matter little, as long as there can be speculation) ever since what, NT 3.5? afaik it has always been the case that companies are slow to change.. even if a product is significantly better, retraining takes time or costs productivity, hence..

[ConductRe]

There is a bigger issue. If you're running vista you already have 99% of the windows 7 features.
How could you justify spending a lot of money on getting 7?

[billstelling]

DX11 and the eye candy...

[0spinboson]

There is a bigger issue. If you're running vista you already have 99% of the windows 7 features.
How could you justify spending a lot of money on getting 7?

Well, the libraries are nice.. That said, I find it more likely that people haven't switched yet. The advantages of vista over xp were fairly minimal in my view.. with the stuff that's been added in win7, there might be a case for me to upgrade from XP.

[ConductRe]

DX11 requires a new (currently non existant) graphics card which costs quite a bit.
Is eye candy worth $100?

We need more reasons, what will we tell people?