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Get management buy-in with the Windows 7 Upgrade Project Kit

Have you presented an upgrade plan to your company's management? Are you preparing a plan now? What stumbling blocks are you encountering? Are you looking for help in the form of a document framework?

Unfortunately, as experience showed to me in past, I never put a bit of Microsoft's production until they deliver a first Service Pack, even if I have checked everything and everythiing fits.
Migrating from Windows NT to 2000 was easy and reliable, from 2000 to XP was not so traumatic, I did not even considered a migration to Vista, and now I'll wait to Windows 7 SP1 to begin thinking about a migration.
Sometimes upgrades are downgrades with painful headaches. This time, I am not going to do the work for Microsoft (in fact a bunch of IT professionals like you and me that give them the solution for their issues), I will wait until they will show to me that spending money in their software worths it, and then deal with the "upper management".

Many surveys have shown that a good percentage of IT departments are *not* waiting for SP1 before deploying Windows 7. I think that's what comes from Microsoft releasing public betas, a stable RC, and, ultimately, the most stable version of Windows to date.