Analysts at Gartner have warned that Windows 7 operating system will take two years to win Windows XP.

Leading Gartner analyst Annette Jump (Annette Jump) said that the biggest competitor to Windows 7 over the next few years will stay Windows XP. She said that XP is still very popular on desktop computers, a segment where it was unable to defeat Windows Vista. Jump said that the economic recession, this means that many IT-departments faced with restrictions on the IT-budget, due to which many users and companies put off moving to Windows 7. Thus, the new operating system will be widely distributed no earlier than 2012.

She thinks that the massive adoption of Windows 7 by various enterprises and companies will not begin until 2011. When this happens, companies will make "pass-through migration" from XP straight to Windows 7. These data coincide with the next replacement cycle of professional computers. Part of the problem is that Microsoft will support Windows XP until 2014. Quite a lot of companies say that there is no reason to rush the transition to Windows 7.