eFolks who make these decisions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is the Department of Energy's oldest physics lab, have decided not to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 when the new operating system comes out - at least, not yet. They do plan to deploy Win7 eventually, but...

only on new hardware and only after the first service pack is released. They're not the only ones. According to a survey done by ScriptLogic, only 34% of companies that responded plan to deploy Windows 7 by the end of 2010. Read more here:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220100882