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Gartner weighed in yesterday about Enterprise evaluation & deployment of Windows 7.
(as published in CIO Magazine)

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Windows 7: Don’t Wait for Service Pack to Test, Gartner Says

October 14, 2009 – With any new OS deployment, IT teams traditionally take the "safe" route and wait for the first service pack. But IT groups that follow that strategy with Windows 7 rollouts will get caught in a support crunch, says research firm Gartner.

“As companies consider Windows 7 deployment timing, many IT veterans choose the traditional safety play: hold off on testing until the first service pack of the new OS arrives. In this case, Microsoft says that will be roughly 12 months after Windows 7 ships on Oct. 22.

But the situation is different for this OS upgrade cycle, analysts say. With automatic Windows updates delivering fixes on a regular basis, businesses should resist the urge to wait for the first service pack to start their Windows 7 deployments, says Gartner research VP Steven Kleynhans. 

"Waiting for service packs made sense in the past because it was the only way people got fixes. That’s not the case today," he says.”

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"If you wait until Windows 7 SP1 to start testing, you will run out of time," warns Kleynhans.

LINK:
http://www.cio.com/article/505021/Windows_7_Don_t_Wait_for_Service_Pack_to_Test_Gartner_Says