Gartner: Just skip Windows Vista
Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Stephen Kleynhans have released an advisory recommending that businesses skip Vista in favor of Windows 7. Windows 7 is currently on schedule and is expected to hit the market as a finished product just before this year's holiday season. Their recommendation includes organizations that have already finished planning for a deployment of Windows Vista--as long as they have not yet started deployment.
The rationale here is that it takes the same amount of effort to deploy Windows Vista as with Windows 7; so why bother with the additional effort when Windows 7 is due so soon? The analysts noted that half of businesses plan to bypass Vista anyway. And if you're not convinced yet, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows, Bill Veghte, echoed a similar suggestion, asking TechEd attendees to switch any ongoing Vista testing to the recently released Release Candidate of Windows 7.
