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Looks like folks are running out to get the last business-usable Windows before Microsoft releases Windows Vista ME 2012 (sorry, Windows 8) in the Fall.

Screwing with comparative functionality in a local-centred device in a familiar form to instead move users to pretty tiles, 'charms', the reliance on touch screens and buried functionality requiring more active internet participation hardly endears.

And Microsoft wonders why XP simply won't die.

My first thought too. The next move from win 7 will be Linux for businesses unless Microsoft pulls another rabbit out of its hat like it had to do after Vista

How stupid can PCW be with its so-called IT journalism before it looses all of its knowledgeable IT Pros (like me) for publishing this kind of stupidity?

Yes, of course Win 7 sales are up. The word about Win 8 is just now leaking out to the "unwashed masses" who don't read any IT articles, and that's sparking a run to get Win 7 machines before M$ releases its next (and biggest) Windows disaster.

How do I know this? Because I'm one of the *many* IT Pro's strongly advising their clients to upgrade to Win 7 *before* Win 8 is released....

The only way that M$ decisions could be worse than they already are, is if they based their decisions on the articles of IT journalists like this one.