WinXP upgrade Win7 compatibility

Computer store news: Although the excellent performance of Microsoft Windows 7 has been almost recognized by most people, the most worrying issue for enterprises when considering upgrading to Windows 7 operating system is program compatibility. According to foreign sources, a survey company recently surveyed 900 IT people and considered that the deployment of non-Windows systems on PCs was slightly less than one-third, compared with 50% last year. At the same time, 86% of respondents are concerned about compatibility issues from the current Windows XP upgrade to Windows 7, and many companies are concerned that the Windows XP programs they are using cannot run on Windows 7 systems.

Due to the unpopularity of Windows Vista, the number of companies considering deploying non-Windows systems on the desktop system has been close to 50% in the past, but the performance of windows7 is very optimistic for enterprises. Enterprises have begun to switch back to thinking about Windows systems. In this survey visit, the proportion of respondents worried about Windows 7 performance dropped from 47% last year to 25%.

According to industry insiders, because you can't upgrade directly from Windows XP to Windows 7 operating system, this requires IT department testing for many companies, and even need to rewrite XP software, which will bring high cost. Will affect the popularity of windows7 in the enterprise. Overall, however, companies are still confident about the Windows 7 operating system, 87% of respondents plan to deploy windows7, which is much higher than 47% of Windows Vista, and 64% of respondents plan to upgrade before Microsoft releases Windows7 SP1. .