WHY?
There is no rational explanation for Windows 8 to start with when I am still migrating clients from XP to Windows 7, and even that is a burden in this most awful of economies where my clients are penny pinchers by the dozen right now. There is NOTHING in Windows 8 to make it a compelling upgrade from 7, which is wonderful unto itself. There is not even a public release of windows 8 yet and when has Microsoft botched a public release? Can we remember Vista? I feel Windows 8 is going to be another Vista and without even a service pack yet? This is madness. Microsoft is now re-investing the OS wheel every 2 years and for no good reason at all. XP ran a good life and will quietly die in about 2 more years. Windows Vista was dead on arrival. Windows 7 is wonderful and quite solid, give it 5 more years. There is nothing compelling in Windows 8 that I have seen to drive any upgrade all.
Chip - you're wrong on this one, no rollout plan NOW and let the thing stabilize first.
