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If your organization is going to upgrade to Vista this year, WHY?

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Curious to see the rationalization of buying a v1.0 microsoft product.

so What's the reasoning your execs gave for upgrading?

 
Definitley not. No respectable IT manager would let a gold version of anything done by microsoft get into production. A considerable number of large companies are just upgrading to Exchange 2000 NOW!!!
 
The only reason would be stupidity. Aren't most organizations just going to ghost xp pro onto new machines and use volume licenses?
 
Most companies are required to upgrade by contract. The company I worked for was required to install it on a minimum number of machines or they could be sued for tons of money. But it works the other way too; part of the reason why Microsoft has to rush the release of Vista and is cutting so many features is because they weren't going to meet contract deadlines and could be sued because of it.

It's a stupid world we live in.
 
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY will upgrade to Vista this year. MS is planning to release it NEXT year.

BTW, my company just got a new Dell with Windows 2000...
 
Originally posted by: nerve
My company usually will start looking into strategies after SP1 has been released.

We are just finishing up installing WinXP
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what was your reason for going to XP?? i cannot for the life of me see a good reason to upgrade from 2000 Pro to XP Pro.

pre 2000 Pro upgrade to XP i understand.

2000 pro to xp pro doesn't give enough advantages in my opinion to make it a worthwhile upgrade.

 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: nerve
My company usually will start looking into strategies after SP1 has been released.

We are just finishing up installing WinXP
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what was your reason for going to XP?? i cannot for the life of me see a good reason to upgrade from 2000 Pro to XP Pro.

pre 2000 Pro upgrade to XP i understand.

2000 pro to xp pro doesn't give enough advantages in my opinion to make it a worthwhile upgrade.
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interface is prettier

 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: nerve
My company usually will start looking into strategies after SP1 has been released.

We are just finishing up installing WinXP
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what was your reason for going to XP?? i cannot for the life of me see a good reason to upgrade from 2000 Pro to XP Pro.

pre 2000 Pro upgrade to XP i understand.

2000 pro to xp pro doesn't give enough advantages in my opinion to make it a worthwhile upgrade.
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interface is prettier
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that's a lot of money to spend for a prettier interface. you should have waited for Vista. 😉
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: nerve
My company usually will start looking into strategies after SP1 has been released.

We are just finishing up installing WinXP
Click to expand...

what was your reason for going to XP?? i cannot for the life of me see a good reason to upgrade from 2000 Pro to XP Pro.

pre 2000 Pro upgrade to XP i understand.

2000 pro to xp pro doesn't give enough advantages in my opinion to make it a worthwhile upgrade.
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Windows rollouts where I'm working now are governed by what the machines ship with. If the current machines being ordered are shipping with XP, they get reimaged with XP, and all the 2k machines get imaged to XP at earliest convenience. When they go to Vista, the same thing will happen.

We just deployed an image site-wide this past week entitled "Windows XP VLK - FINAL" - apparently the Vista machines are coming soon.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: nerve
My company usually will start looking into strategies after SP1 has been released.

We are just finishing up installing WinXP
Click to expand...

what was your reason for going to XP?? i cannot for the life of me see a good reason to upgrade from 2000 Pro to XP Pro.

pre 2000 Pro upgrade to XP i understand.

2000 pro to xp pro doesn't give enough advantages in my opinion to make it a worthwhile upgrade.
Click to expand...
interface is prettier
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that's a lot of money to spend for a prettier interface. you should have waited for Vista. 😉
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i didn't spend jack. my school had MSDNAA so i got it for free.

i also have a newsgroup subscription and a 16Mbit connection.
 
I wonder how long it takes for Microsoft to migrate its own production platforms and desktop deployments 😉 Seriously, is there any investigative reporting on this?
 
company here has to upgrade at least a few computers for the shere fact we develop software and having any availible OS installed is kinda a necessaity 😛
 
Originally posted by: AStar617
I wonder how long it takes for Microsoft to migrate its own production platforms and desktop deployments 😉 Seriously, is there any investigative reporting on this?
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Desktop deployments are apparently run the same way there as at any other huge IT department. New stuff coming in gets the new OS, everything else gets it either when it's replaced, or when they get some free time.

Servers are probably migrated as need arises, and as new ones come in.
 
Originally posted by: IBuyUFO
No organization will upgrade to a new OS in it's first year release.
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There were plenty of enterprises that rolled out 2003 RTM as soon as it came out.

 
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY will upgrade to Vista this year. MS is planning to release it NEXT year.

BTW, my company just got a new Dell with Windows 2000...
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I was wondering if anybody was going to catch that? Anybody upgrading to Vienna this year? :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: IBuyUFO
No organization will upgrade to a new OS in it's first year release.
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We are upgrading to vista as soon as it is released. We have about 2500 PC's half of which Are sub 2GHz. We're just going to replace the machines that don't cut mustard when it happens. We are rolling in dough so we don't care.
 
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