From the May 23, 2008 issue:
It begins:
Buying PCs is a central task for IT managers, but it’s hardly an easy one. For one (obvious) thing, you cannot just buy new computers the way people order lattes. It not only takes a lot of thought and planning, but it rarely gets accomplished overnight.
“Even if you’re upgrading your whole fleet of PCs, you take everybody out a little at a time, and so you have two operating environments going at once—your old one and new one,” says Roger Kay, founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates (www.ndpta.com), a technology market analysis firm. In addition to managing the two environments, you have to upgrade your applications, perhaps rewrite your primary business applications, and upgrade your client-side operating system.
Except it isn’t even that simple anymore. Microsoft Windows Vista (www.microsoft.com) has been problematic for many users, and it can be so slow that The Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg recently joked in a column that you can take your dog on a walk during the amount of time Vista takes to boot up. Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced that it plans to stop retail sales and general licensing of WinXP to OEMs beginning June 20, as well as quit primary support of the OS as of April 14, 2009. “And XP is a good OS. It’s stable, runs pretty fast, has the kinks worked out of it,” says Kay.
Given that the situation is more complicated than ever before, here are some tips to help you in your quest to upgrade your PC fleet.
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