Windows 8 Your Plans

[alttab]

i think it'll be a case of getting our heads around what improved manageability features there are with windows 8, as far as whether it's a candidate for the desktop.

 

to me windows 8 doesn't really fit with the desktop experience, where the tile interface is a solution looking for a non-existent problem.

 

the tablet/touchscreen space is a lot more interesting, would love to get my hands on a couple of the microsoft surface devices, to see whether it

can do more of the tasks you'd associate with a laptop. Which to be fair is the only reason i'd chose it above an iPad at the moment.

[Cache]

I've just gone through a mass deployment of Windows 7 this summer (every desktop) so it's unlikely to be anytime within the next year.

 

To be fair, I'm not going to say never, however it's unlikely to be any time soon unless there's a pressing need to.

[RabbieBurns]

I will be putting Windows 8 onto our 90 Dell Slates as soon as it appears in my licensing downloads. Hopefully this Friday.

[Devontechie]

 

With regards to Windows 8. In the enviroment I am in now (no educational support for SMB's). I don't think Windows 8 is going to be something we push to clients. Tablets possibly but not at the desktop level.

 

As @glennda has said, with my current envirnment, I can't see Windows 8 being something that clients will be going for unless they have tablets (currently non of them do!)

[SYNACK]

I will be putting Windows 8 onto our 90 Dell Slates as soon as it appears in my licensing downloads. Hopefully this Friday.

 

Likewise, as soon as it comes out - on tablets. Desktops will have to wait a bit till we see haw it pans out but we have had Windows 7 deployed for nearly three years now so a change not would not be too soon.

[gshaw]

My work desktop's Windows 7 installation is getting a bit ropey so if I feel like pain I might chuck it on there in the vain hope of starting to like it through the IT equivalent of Stockholm syndrome