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Support for XP ends April 2014. When are most large enterprises planning to go live with Win 7?

I would imagine they would probably be wanting to do it sometime late 2013.

I need to know because I am writing software and I want to know how long I need to support XP for.

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Ask your customers. How should anyone here know when any company plans to upgrade? – SvenW Nov 30 '11 at 10:32
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I would have thought, if they were intending to do so they would have done by now. Obviously you'll still have some companies using it post-2014 due to budget reasons but most will likely go to 7 than 8, as 8 is as big a step from 7 as Vista (shudder) was to XP. – tombull89 Nov 30 '11 at 10:39
@tombull89: they will need to do it before April 2014, so it is just a matter of when. – CraigJ Nov 30 '11 at 11:00
I think you might get better answers if you give details of your product, and focus on your actual market. If you market really is "most large enterprises" then you should probably invest in information from someone like Gartner who will have asked "most large enterprises" what there plans are. – dunxd Nov 30 '11 at 11:00
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they don't need to do it by April 2014, XP won't just pack up and stop working (at least, I hope not). There just wont be any fixes or security holes repaired after that. – tombull89 Nov 30 '11 at 11:02
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Now and this year to my knowledge. I know of three larger enterprises that are in the middle / end of planning this (each aruond 100.00 employees + where I ahppened to do work the last year and this).

Some already eye at Windows 8 (smaller ones) seeing the new featuers as important enough to justify skipping windows 7, too, but that is rarer.

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You should be able to support both XP, Vista and Windows 7 Easily if you code your software correctly. Just make sure it does not ask for admin permissions unless it needs too so they do not get a prompt for UAC.

That said given that their are still some companies running Windows 2000. And their are some that will probably never upgrade I would support XP until 2-3 years after the EOL of XP. Hopefully by then enough people that insist on not upgrading with upgrade for security reasons.

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