Windows 10: Microsoft warns enterprises to upgrade to Windows 10 or be left behind

I believe some of the more recent posts only apply to large corporations that have the resources to maintain their own computing ecology, like a Windows XP computing ecology behind a beefy corporate firewall that requires an IT army to maintain, and $$$ for special security and other patches from Microsoft.

That's far from typical for even medium sized businesses of say 100 people. They don't have that kind of resources to maintain their own computing ecology. They will have to move along with MS' roadmap and then the blog post does apply to them, it is not just some hot air to wave away.

Not that the roadmap means immediate hardship, 2020/2023 is still 4/7 years out. But it does take two to tango and you better pay attention to what your tango partner is or will be doing, especially if your tango partner is an elephant *Biggrin

 

I made it up (I thought it was you earlier in this thread, I guess not). Sorry mate.

 

It's easier to move your infrastructure from Windows 7 to Windows 10 then to move from Windows 7 to Linux. Whether their code is custom or not it's designed to run in Windows not Linux.

 

Well it does matter because eventhough you install your Windows 7 image you purchased a Windows 10 license with the PC. At least that's how it works with my company.

 

We have full downgrade rights on our ENT agreement. We could roll the whole company back to NT 4.0 if we wanted to *Smile

Sonic.