Monday, December 14, 2009
RE: Windows 7 Challenge!
If you are a member of HTG, IAMCP or CMIT you know that last week was the deadline to participate in the Windows 7 Challenge! Obviously, with the deadline having come and went, I'm not going to encourage you to participate. Instead, I am going to CHALLENGE you!
I am a member of HTG. In fact, I facilitate the HTG19 group. I had one of my members state, "I went to the site, and it wants me to vouch for at least 50% of my PCs. I’m having a problem with that. Are you guys just going ahead with it?"
Here is my response:
"We have definitely moved ahead, and I would urge you to do the same. Forget about the contest for a minute. Why wouldn’t you move your team onto the Windows 7 platform? Suppose a large opportunity presented itself to migrate to Win7, BUT they ask you what OS you and your staff are running. Do you think that you are going to get the gig? How often do you think that “We are running Vista (or heaven forbid XP)…” is going to get you a new opportunity? XP and Vista experience is taken for granted. Our clients EXPECT us to have experience with the CURRENT operating systems available.
Don’t let the Techs take the lead here. Set the expectation and enforce it.
Let me jump back to XP for a minute. Now you can say with pride, “Sure we still run XP in a couple of instances… In XP mode on Win7.” No one has to be a tech laggard any longer."
I am a member of HTG. In fact, I facilitate the HTG19 group. I had one of my members state, "I went to the site, and it wants me to vouch for at least 50% of my PCs. I’m having a problem with that. Are you guys just going ahead with it?"
Here is my response:
"We have definitely moved ahead, and I would urge you to do the same. Forget about the contest for a minute. Why wouldn’t you move your team onto the Windows 7 platform? Suppose a large opportunity presented itself to migrate to Win7, BUT they ask you what OS you and your staff are running. Do you think that you are going to get the gig? How often do you think that “We are running Vista (or heaven forbid XP)…” is going to get you a new opportunity? XP and Vista experience is taken for granted. Our clients EXPECT us to have experience with the CURRENT operating systems available.
Don’t let the Techs take the lead here. Set the expectation and enforce it.
Let me jump back to XP for a minute. Now you can say with pride, “Sure we still run XP in a couple of instances… In XP mode on Win7.” No one has to be a tech laggard any longer."
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