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...7: The $1930 Upgrade When you include replacement hardware, admin costs, application testing, and replacing incompatible apps, Gartner's VP of research, Michael Silver, believes that -- in a hypothetical organization with 2,500 Windows...

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"Microsoft will support Windows XP until April 2014, [but users should] plan to be off Windows XP by the end of 2012 to ensure ongoing support by independent software vendors for new applications," Gartner analyst Stephen Kleynhaus wrote.

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...up until late 2010," she said. Gartner estimates that migration costs could be between $1,035 (GBP633) to $1,930 (GBP1,180) for a user to move from Windows XP to Windows 7, and $339 to $510 from Windows Vista. Large corporations can expect to...

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...not for purchase. Dell started taking Windows 7 over the weekend. Gartner is telling businesses they must upgrade to Windows 7, despite any hardships migrating from Windows XP. Microsoft is priming the marketing pumps. The PC industry is...

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...to run Windows XP as part of their IT setup. Gartner recommends eliminating Windows XP infrastructure by the end of 2012, ahead of Microsoft s ending security support in April 2014. Those still using Windows 2000 should stop doing so,...

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...Windows XP by the end of 2012. "New releases of critical business software will require Windows 7 long before Microsoft support for Windows XP ends," said Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner. "Organisations that get all of...

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...its users time by booting up more quickly and better managing user screens power use. The corporate users, who took part in a panel at the Gartner Inc. Symposium/ITxpo conference here, are migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 after...

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...Gartner expect corporate demand for Windows 7 to gain full momentum by the end of 2010. Consequently, Gartner recommends strongly that businesses start testing for Windows 7 now, citing that mainstream support for Windows XP ended in April...

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2. Start work on migration plans now. A typical organization requires 12 to 18 months of waiting, testing and planning before it can start deploying a new client OS, Gartner explained. Read more on "Five steps before firms make Win...

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