Thursday, 13 October 2011

Microsoft urges enterprises to upgrade Win 7 No 8 as soon as possible

Beijing time the evening of October 12 message, Microsoft on Monday urged the users who are still using Windows XP upgrades to Windows 7 as soon as possible, without waiting for Windows 8.

Microsoft business products, marketing General Manager liqi·leinuoerde (Rich Reynolds) in official blog said on Monday, Microsoft will stop in April 2014, support for Windows XP, so companies need to upgrade to Windows 7 as soon as possible.

Despite the 2014 sounds a long time, but for enterprise users, the major transplantation requires a lot of time in any form, such as transplantation programmes, testing and user training.

Assuming Windows 8 in 2012, listed at the end of, the current is still using XP Enterprise to upgrade directly to Windows 8 has only a year's time, is very urgent.

To this end, reference Gartner report, not because Microsoft Windows 8 change plan of deploying Windows 7, says enterprises should upgrade to Windows 7 now, without waiting for Windows 8 listed before you upgrade.

According to research firm Net Applications data, although XP market share has slipped, but still dominated the Windows system, the market share of about 50%.

Leinuoerde blog says: "upgrading to Windows 7 and Office 2010 will allow us to enjoy today's works, instead of 10 years. "To help large companies to upgrade to Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced several tools, such as TechNet Springboard, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.

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