The latest IT spending survey of Goldman Sachs’ forecasts unassuming overall growth. An increase in Windows 7 sale in recent days prepared the stage for this development with a pent-up demand for new hardware. Hardware like PCs and servers restricted the demands, stimulating the increase in Windows 7 upgrade.
Goldman, overall, made a forecast of 8 percent decline in Global IT expenditure for the year of 2009. The decline will be expectedly followed by 4 percent growth in the year 2010. With the cooperation of 100 IT executives, the survey consists of 100 companies from Fortune.
It is predicted that by 2010, normal level of the upgradation will be escalated to standard level by more expenditure on software for servers. SAS based applications and virtualizations are expected to go back to its standard level by the coming year.
In Windows 7, as Goldman extracts data from the research firm IDC, it is revealed that starting from 2009, third quarter PC shipments are up by 17 percent from its previous quarter and up by 2 percent year-over-year.
The increase, in 2010, in Windows 7 upgrade, is likely to occur due to increase in number of aging PCs that have reached the end of their lifecycle. According to the Goldman Sachs report, however, the appearance of Windows 7 also has a significant influence.
Looking forward to 2011, the survey indicates that 94 percent of survey respondents intend to upgrade to Windows 7 by that year, with 32 percent planning to do so in 2010 and 28 percent in the current year.
Coming to the conclusion, according to Goldman’s expectation, the remaining, 34 percent of Windows 7 upgrade cases will bend forward to more towards 2012. This is because of the reason that 85 to 90 percent of respondents are still using Windows XP, and XP support expires in April 2014. Goldman Sach believes that 2013 will become a deadline for Windows 7 upgrade.
