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Old 08-07-2012, 04:59 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
That's the *earliest* that even the most aggressive adopters can do the job right. Three years to move? Very likely. Five? That's pushing it for big companies but small ones that just migrated to Win7 may still be there in 5 years.
None of that will stop Windows 8 from selling 350 million copies or so in the first year.

BTW, here's another ZDNet article. This one is on why MS is dropping the start menu. Hint: it's to foster use of the Windows Key on your keyboard.
http://www.zdnet.com/why-windows-8-m...ey-7000000338/

Turns out Win8 is *very* keyboard friendly:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/santhoshonli...shortcuts.aspx
So far I see nothing to gripe about. I *like* keyboard shortcuts.
We made a Win7 image available early this year and have been rolling out Win7 clients for most of the year. Really no big deal. XP goes away when the last machines come off lease -- which just happens to be three years.
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