Comment Re:Win7 is the new XP (Score 1) 640
That's because Microsoft has permitted it to happen. If say there were a 2 year mandatory migration schedule would be working around or removing those roadblocks aggressively. In terms of the roadmap, Microsoft does a great job on the roadmap. The customers though because they wait make things unpredictable for IT.
Sorry. I just don't think you really have worked for large enterprise IT before. The roadmap for a vendor like GE to get customer feedback on Enterprise applications, make those changes, do internal testing, get the FDA to do their testing and certify it, deploy to a test site and work out bugs, then get other enterprises who don't want to be a test site to deploy let alone have the capital budget to do it, is often longer than two years. That's not even counting dependencies on other applications from other vendors whose implementation has to be staggered because it can be the same people doing both projects.