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February 9, 2009

Ballmer to Businesses: Upgrade to Windows 7 or Face Employee Wrath

Filed under: Tech News — TechDock @ 7:53 pm
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Yahoo Tech reports that Microsoft seems a bit concerned about the slow business adoption rate of their latest operating systems.  Facing up to the fact that Windows Vista only has a ten percent penetration in the business market, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer warned businesses that if they insist on holding on to Windows XP rather than upgrade to Windows 7 when it becomes available, they will have to cope with mobs of angry employees.  In an interview with Computerworld UK, Ballmer said, “If you deploy a four- or five-year-old operating system today, most people will ask their boss why the heck they don’t have the stuff they have at home.”

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