Upgrade to Windows 7

[JS]

Will finally see a file system change from NTFS
Will see a 128 Bit version
Will see major changes in how OS interfaces to upcoming 8 and 16 core
processors.

Will be busy with next Vista Service Patch
Will be busy with first Windows 7 service patch

Corporate IT types never really adopted Vista in a large way
and it take at least two fiscal years before they have the budget
to move to Windows 7, so if Windows 8 comes out too soon
it might dampen any move to 7.

Microsoft needs time to recoup their investment in 7 so why
kill off what could be the real successor to XP.

And that's just to name a few reasons

 

[Bob I]

Will finally see a file system change from NTFS

That was dropped for Vista-Win 7, but I suspect most of the work is
already done.

Will see a 128 Bit version

64 bit was introduced for XP

Will see major changes in how OS interfaces to upcoming 8 and 16 core
processors.

Will be busy with next Vista Service Patch
Will be busy with first Windows 7 service patch

And the same was done for NT 4 and Windows 2000 while XP was in the works.

Corporate IT types never really adopted Vista in a large way
and it take at least two fiscal years before they have the budget
to move to Windows 7, so if Windows 8 comes out too soon
it might dampen any move to 7.

Vista's forte was more along the lines of the Consumer side of the
ledger. It didn't have much in the way of business "must haves". But
with XP being so old now, we will see a big switch from XP to Win 7.

Microsoft needs time to recoup their investment in 7 so why
kill off what could be the real successor to XP.

They won't kill it off, but I see 8 coming out in 2 or 3 years but only
4 years at very latest if things really go awry.