{"id":10824,"date":"2010-08-27T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10824"},"modified":"2010-08-27T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:37:12","slug":"companies-delaying-on-windows-7-will-face-staff-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10824","title":{"rendered":"Companies Delaying on Windows 7 Will Face Staff Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechCentral has <a href=\"http:\/\/techcentral.ie\/article.aspx?id=15486\" target=\"_blank\">posted <\/a>a story where Gartner is advising companies not to delay on the deployment of Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner says that <em>&#8220;&#8221;We estimate that large and mid-size organisations worldwide will migrate approximately 250 million PCs to Windows 7&#8221;<\/em> between 2011 and 2013.\u00a0 They think this will drive up demand for OS deployment skills, not seen with Vista, and will lead to a shortage of those skills.\u00a0 That will drive up staffing prices, and force laggards to hire lesser skilled people who will perform\u00a0a lower quality job.<\/p>\n<p>Nice timing!\u00a0 It just so happens that my current (already!) writing project is centred in this space.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll talk more about that later when I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCentral has posted a story where Gartner is advising companies not to delay on the deployment of Windows 7. 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