Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7 on Thursday promises to have a far bigger impact on the enterprise space than the software giant’s release of Vista, according to industry observers. The good news for Microsoft that moment around is that businesses have far more incentive to upgrade.

“Windows XP won’t be around forever, and the anticipation for commercial adoption of Windows 7 is reaching a boiling point,” notes Forrester Research Senior Analyst Benjamin Gray in a new report. However,

application compatibility analyzing and remediation can take up to 18 months for global organizations that support thousands of applications worldwide, which is why “IT professionals should start preparing for it now,” Gray said.

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Recent surveys indicate that the majority of businesses are still running Windows XP, which has been around since the beginning of the decade. A new Forrester survey shows that Windows XP still powers nearly 80 […]

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