Abstract
This IDC study takes a deep look at Microsoft' s Windows
7 product and considers the potential for this product to
accelerate the lagging adoption of current-generation Microsoft client operating environment
(COE) product aboard new PC shipments.
"Windows 7 offers a number
of important new capabilities that will allow it to achieve
better success than its predecessor, Windows Vista. IDC believes that
Windows 7 will be successful overcoming many, if not most,
of the challenges that Windows Vista faced in the market,"
said Al Gillen, program VP, Operating Environments, at IDC.
Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Situation Overview
- Availability: Holiday Season 2009
- Compatibility Remains an Issue
- New Features of Windows 7
- The Role for Virtualization with Windows 7
- Virtualization: Not for Everyone
- Trying Out Windows XP Mode
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
- Figure: Improved User Account Control Interface
- Figure: Worldwide Windows Client Operating Environment New License Shipments and Nonpaid Deployments, 2005–2013
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