I'm not sure I want to hop on this bandwagon yet, but it sounds like someone is already trying to start up a "Skip Seven" movement in the same way that some of us argued for skipping Vista.

I say this not because of the recent poll that indicated, quite appropriately, that some sixty percent of companies recently surveyed by ScriptLogic as to their OS deployment plans indicate that they have no plans to deploy Windows Seven... I wouldn't be putting together roll-out plans until after SP1, either. The remaining forty percent can be pardoned for rushing since they are probably either nervous about XP getting yanked out from under them, or are desperate to get off Vista already, but I wouldn't have expected the majority of businesses to have developed deployment plans at this stage in the game, no matter how terrific the release candidate is looking. The survey results, in other words, are right in line with a normal, successful operating system product launch, in my opinion.

So to me, it looks like someone is setting an agenda of some sort when Reuters headlines the news as "Six in 10 companies plan to skip Windows 7: survey." The survey doesn't say that they plan to skip it at all; just that they haven't planned to deploy it yet. I predict that a larger percentage than usual will skip it, just because they have realized as a result of the Vista debacle that they can do so without incurring the wrath of the gods, and while saving a great deal of money; but out of that sixty percent, I would bet that ninety percent will ultimately migrate to Seven within five years. That may be a delay, but it isn't skipping anything.