"This survey highlights the impact the economy has had on IT, with thirty five percent of respondents saying they've saved money by skipping upgrades and delaying purchases," said Nick Cavalancia, vice president of Windows management at ScriptLogic. "This is likely a reason why IT administrators will put off a Windows 7 migration. ScriptLogic continues to upgrade and enhance our Desktop Authority product line. So, when our customer base is ready to deploy Windows 7, we will have the solutions available to simplify the process."

That about sums up the relevance of the survey and the subsequent articles about it. I have to hand it to ScriptLogic, though; it managed to turn most of the blogosphere into a ScriptLogic advertising engine for a day.

Stay classy, bloggers.

And by the way, here's a little unpaid-for opinion for what it's worth. I am not Microsoft's greatest fan, but as someone who has been doing this stuff for over half my life, skipped Vista without any regrets, but conducted an in-depth review of Windows 7 for deployment in my organization, I personally can't wait to replace XP with Windows 7. I can at least confirm that in my organization, it will save a lot of time and personnel resources over supporting XP. If your organization is primarily Windows-based and your director or CIO puts a "6 in 10 skipping Win 7" article in front of you as some sort of bolstering argument for not at least doing a proper shakedown of Windows 7, arm yourself with the facts.

Jeff Ello is a hybrid veteran of the IT and CG industries, currently managing IT for the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. He can be contacted at .