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Windows 7: Why I'm Rolling It Out Early

While many IT organizations say they're in no rush to roll out Windows 7, the City of Miami, already a Vista shop, won't wait. Here's a look at the IT plan and reasoning.

Hoping for a Smooth Transition from Vista

The City of Miami is not taking the more common upgrade path of moving all its machines from XP to Windows 7. The agency deployed Vista in October, 2008 in monthly increments and now has it running on 560 desktops/laptops, says Jim Osteen, City of Miami's Assistant Director of IT.

The embattled Vista still suffers from negative perceptions and low adoption at enterprises — 10 percent, according to Forrester. But the City of Miami's Osteen says that he migrated many of his machines to Vista because of the compatibility improvements he had seen since the release of Vista Service Pack 1 and the advanced search and security features that he believes dwarf Windows XP.

Osteen says that he didn't set out to have Vista serve as a transition to Windows 7, but he was impressed enough with the speed, network connectivity and UI features of Windows 7 that he and his staff started planning a migration. Because Windows 7 application compatibility and hardware requirements are so similar to Vista, Osteen says he expects the transition to Windows 7 from both Vista and XP machines to be smooth.

"We created successful training sessions for our clients that moved from XP to Vista," he says. "We'll make minor modifications to that training for the transition from XP to Windows 7."

Osteen's goal is to roll out Windows 7 when it releases to manufacturing (scheduled for late August) on 30 machines for his IT support staff so they can gain support expertise. The agency then plans to purchase 100 new machines running Windows 7 within 30 to 60 days after Windows 7's release.

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