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What Windows 8? Microsoft Pushes XP-to-Win 7 Migration

24.05.2012
What's the best operating system for businesses? If you were to ask Microsoft, you'd probably expect them to preach the virtues of the company's upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which arrives later this year on both PCs and tablets.

But for enterprises still running Redmond's antiquated Windows XP OS, Windows 7 is the logical upgrade--at least according to a new written by analyst firm IDC and sponsored by Microsoft.

(Disclaimer: PCWorld and IDC are both owned by the same parent company, IDG.)

The whitepaper, titled "Mitigating Risk: Why Sticking with Windows XP is a Bad Idea," is the latest step in Microsoft's to driving a stake through XP's eternally beating heart.

So what's the report say? Pretty much what you'd expect.

"IDC found that the base IT and end user labor costs of continuing to support Windows XP is now approximately five times as much as the cost of running Windows 7," writes Microsoft's Erwin Visser in a May 24 post on .