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Workstation Lifecycles
Workstation Life Cycles I just read a bit of intel about some usage numbers on Vista. I have to add some intel, to that intel. Media outlets always skew the truth and reality when it comes to technology. I like to call it corporate politics. The same reason you have a Chevy Truck getting Truck of the Year from one magazine and Ford getting Truck of the Year from a competing magazine. They are out to sell magazines and advertising. They don't care what they lie about. Just look at the reporters who have lied just to get a story published in a major newspaper. You can't take what's written on paper or on the web for that matter literally. This intel included. Details are left out to change perception. Other details are magnified through good creative writing methods to draw attention to something that may not be worth the toilet paper it was written on. With that being said, I have to add this bit of info to that intel. Any corporation with a half way decent IT department or even a Small Business with a decent outsourced or internal IT person or staff, is going to have life cycles implemented for their workstations. If they don't have these implemented, then they either don't know what they are doing, or are not being very cost efficient for their employers or clients. Most IT departments will have the following life cycle for workstations. It may vary slightly, taking into consideration the early adopters and late bloomers alike. Basically, for a workstation/desktop it will be put on a 4 year life cycle. For a laptop/tablet pc it will be put on a 3 year life cycle. Not to say that some of the machines don't get replaced later or earlier depending on circumstances, but that should be the average life cycle. It used to be that upgrades were cost effective and that an OS (Operating System) would be upgraded even before the machine was replaced. That is no longer the case. Now because of life cycles being implemented and hardware becoming cheaper and cheaper to acquire, an OS is upgraded when the machine is replaced. Now lets take into consideration the various things that go on in a corporation. Some applications have been used for years, and not upgraded. This causes an IT department to have to do rigorous testing on applications on the new OS, before any systems are rolled out. So you may be looking at delays on new system replacements due to compatibility with some applications on the new system. Depending on the release date of a new OS, this may postpone system replacemetns up to 1 year. On the flip side of that if it is released earlier, it may have systems being replaced as much as 6 months early. This because they still get some benefit of these old systems through donations in exchange for tax credits. Since XP came out in 2001, some companies didn't even begin using it until as late as 2003, due to life cycles. Now if their systems were on a life cycle, then that would put adoption of Vista somewhere around 2007 to 2008. Most companies will not use an OS the second it comes out. It has to be tested like I mentioned above. This could put adoption if the life cycle was on track as late as the end of 2008. It will soon be February of 2008. That is a little over 1 year after Vista's release. There will not be a lot of companies using Vista, yet. Whoever got those numbers for CDW wasn't doing his job. You have to take all facts into consideration when doing these little surveys. You can't just put some standard multiple choice responses and get good intel on a survey's topic. You have to invest a lot of money and send people out into the field for that. These surveys are conducted either via a form on their website or via direct mail. None of them include a person asking these companies an open ended question. To get real numbers, you have to allow people to answer in their own words, and analyze that data. Surveys rarely provide any real usable information. In the end, Microsoft has always done well with OS releases, because of their dominance. They also do well, because they use shady tactics in getting people to upgrade. XP works just fine, but Microsoft uses their updates, as a way to strong arm users into upgrading. You will no longer receive updates after such and such date, unless you have this minimum version of this OS. This is good in a way, and bad in others. Either way those numbers from that intel are skewed because Vista is still young in the Business demographic. If for some reason in February of 2000 you don't see a lot of businesses using Vista, then there might be issues. But as for right now, Microsoft is just working out all the bugs these companies are reporting. This is what they always do. |
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