Windows 7 will be Microsoft’s last full Windows client upgrade, with operating systems and data moving increasingly into the cloud amid seismic shifts in the computing world, say the analysts at IDC.
Analyst Al Gillen says Windows 7 shows an important moment in the evolution of computing, publishing this notion in IDC’s end-of-year list of predictions for the coming technology years.
Gillen says Windows 7 will be the “last really big refresh, en-masse, of the Windows client environment as we have known it for the last decade”.
He predicts Win 7 adoption and replacement will continue for up to seven years - but by the time the time
