Windows 7 building up steam in schools

re: Windows 7 building up steam in schools

The Angry Technician — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:19:52 GMT

The previous NM in my post used to have a keyboard and mouse attached to all the servers and would routinely download files and browse documentation using them. One would hope that wasn't common practice, but it might be more common that we'd like.

re: Windows 7 building up steam in schools

mlporter — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:20:09 GMT

@arichards: I know that when we rebuilt our network over the summer, we talked about Windows 7, but the mid-late summer release made it logistically impossible.

Had 7 been released a month or two earlier, I'm sure that the 14% mentioned above would have been at least doubled. As an IT dept. we've all been using it on our laptops since Beta, with very little complaint, and are looking at small scale deployment soon.

re: Windows 7 building up steam in schools

arichards — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:31:53 GMT

I think the number of Windows 7 users is bound to increase over time. Given the lateness of the release in August I imagine a lot of Schools are waiting until next Summer to undertake their roll out.

re: Windows 7 building up steam in schools

Dave Coleman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:24:05 GMT

I think the number of win 7 users will go up but people may still be suffering the "Vista Effect" and sticking with the much loved XP, but with more events and blog posts to show it is safe to dip your toe in the water it will swing in favour of win 7. Or are they all going with the usual reason "Wait for service pack 1"