Windows 8
02-07-2013, 05:44 PM
Joe Wrote:DaveP Wrote:I was wondering.. what kind of customers or companies are such early adopters of new operating systems? Pepsico is a pretty damn big company and we are still using XP, an 11-12 year old OS. Are we just really that behind? Wouldn't really surprise me, some of the other software we use on a regular basis dates back to the early 90's.
I'm a small to medium size business IT consultant so I only deal with customers that have 5 to 150 computers. These companies don't have standard build machines so there's no corporate image that can be deployed. We basically buy the machines from Dell add them to the domain and install needed software.
The large companies I worked for have always been years behind each operating system deployments.
That makes sense. Probably tens of thousands of computers on this network.
When they do upgrade.. I doubt it will be to the newest OS on the market. 3 years from now upgrade to Window 7. We just got Outlook 2010 about 6 months ago.