The success of Microsoft's Windows 7 beta test phase has organizations that have been locked in a Windows XP 'holding pattern' looking to jump directly from XP to Windows 7. And now that Microsoft has said it will allow XP customers to buy Windows 7 upgrade media and upgrade licenses, that path is about to get pretty crowded.
But the direct XP-to-Windows 7 upgrade scenario is one that Microsoft probably wanted to avoid. When Microsoft began talking about Windows 7 last year, the software giant said companies that chose to skip Vista entirely would still face migration issues when they moved Windows 7.
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