Windows XP was released on October 25, 2001 making the operating system eight years old this week. Windows Vista became available to the general public on January 30, 2007.
In two days the latest operating system from Microsoft will be in the stores, Windows 7.
Nearly half of 1,200 companies surveyed by a veteran technology analyst plan to deploy Windows 7 in its first year of availability, and another 11 percent say they will make the shift as soon as Microsoft releases the first service pack update for the new operating system.
