So Gartner "speaks" about the topic of "skipping Windows Vista". So far no financial services customer of mine is seriously considering this option, however for what it’s worth, here’s the article. There’s some positive and some negative in here about us and about our track record but if it helps you and your organization move forward go ahead and use it to help whatever your efforts are.
Here’s a few short key quotes:
Planning to skip Windows Vista altogether, waiting for Microsoft’s next operating system?
For some companies, it’s a tempting option, but they need to consider it carefully, or they could end up feeling some pain down the line, according to analyst group Gartner…
…Gartner research vice president Michael Silver has warned that the next version of Windows, code-named "Windows 7," may also suffer from the delays that dogged Vista and be just as difficult to adopt.
"Organizations that tried to skip Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP often had ISV (independent software vendor) support issues, and a difficult and rushed or forced migration. Organizations that try to skip Windows Vista are likely to undergo the same perils," the Gartner research warned.
For example, while Microsoft will support business versions of Windows for at least 10 years, and Windows XP is expected to be supported with security fixes until 2014, many software vendors won’t support their products on Windows XP for that long, nor will they support new versions of their software on older operating systems.
For Windows XP, software suppliers will probably start dropping support in early 2010 and, by 2012, it will be common for software vendors not to support Windows XP for their new versions or applications.
LINK: Gartner: Large businesses shouldn’t skip Vista
http://www.news.com/Gartner-Large-businesses-shouldnt-skip-Vista/2100-1016_3-6221925.html?tag=html.alert.comp
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