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Lose them to who?

Themselves. On the desktop, there may not be a compelling reason to upgrade to Windows 8...with the exception of IE10. As a former enterprise IT manager, I would seriously consider staying with Windows 7 and switching my users wholesale to Chrome or Firefox...despite the lack of GPO options with either of those.

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And I'm guessing that Microsoft has enough smart business people to get a pretty good estimate of how many enterprise customers will stick with the recently released Windows 7. It was going to be hard to make a product that gave IT departments a compelling reason to upgrade from 7 which makes Windows 8 a great time to test the water for things like mobile. Enterprise isn't jumping ship on Microsoft and they're going to use that stronghold to attempt to gain new markets in an "off-release".

Chrome supports policies: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

Thanks for the link. I hadn't investigated for several years and it's nice to know they've jumped on the GPO bandwagon. All the more reason to get your enterprise off IE.

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