The qualifying phrase
is most likely "under current circumstances".
"When will you upgrade?"
"Under current circumstances, never."
I suspect that most of the IT pros you refer to as "supposed" are thinking this, but not stating it. Take my explanation above: "under current circumstances" may not have been explicitly stated, but it should most surely have been understood.
The circumstances can be funding, the attitude of the IT staff to the new OS, the attitude of management to IT, legacy applications, hardware limitations, or any combination of these and many other issues. No large business is going to jump right onto the first release of a new OS. Money has a lot to do with it, but too many managers outside IT remember the problems they had implementing the OS they are using now and don't want to go through that again until they absolutely have to. Thus, under current circumstances, IT has no plans to upgrade to Win8.
Home machines are a completely different story. I'll do things at home I wouldn't even consider at work.
