"The server market has come back, the mobile market has also come back," said Hans Mosesmann, an analyst at Raymond James and Associates in St .Petersburg, Fla. "We're at the early stages of an enterprise upgrade cycle".
Now, enterprise upgrade cycles to Windows 7 continue apace, something that isn't in itself a knock against Windows 8 and Windows 8.1; Microsoft has encouraged companies to continue their existing Windows 7 transitions, in part to help kill off Windows XP ahead of its death date next year.
Enterprise upgrades to Windows 7, and improved consumer hardware designs appear to be helping to stabilize the category.
I will also refer to our recently concluded project on enterprise upgrading where we looked at factors that affected the growth of micro and small enterprises in the Philippines, Egypt and India.
Lloyd founded Bypass in 2010 to address these two problems, leveraging a software-centric, SaaS approach to help enterprise merchants upgrade and simplify their payment solutions.
The other main winners would be the remaining telecom "competitors" that would be part of an ever-cozier oligopoly of enterprises that upgrade reluctantly and, compared to providers in other developed nations, grossly overcharge their customers.
However, prior to Windows 7, Microsoft had trouble encouraging enterprises to upgrade to the latest version of Windows — Windows XP SP3 is just that good, like Windows 2000 before it.
Trello is a free product across the board, but both consumer and enterprise customers can upgrade to a premium package, offering extra features.
Microsoft hit it out of the park with Windows 7, though, and is going to have a hard time convincing enterprise customers to upgrade to Windows 8. Windows 7 was nearly an instant hit.
"While our September/October checks indicated solid sales of new BlackBerry operating system 7 models, especially the Bold 9000 series as an upgrade enterprise sale, our recent checks indicate slowing sales trends post the launch of the iPhone 4S and price reductions of the iPhone 4 and 3GS," said Walkley.
How does this sort of work compare with heavy-duty IT tasks like upgrading enterprise systems?
