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BAA, which runs seven airports in the UK including Heathrow, is deploying Windows 7 as part of a five-year pan to slash IT costs.

The company has chosen Windows 7 to simplify its IT environment in a bid to cut IT operational expenses year on year by a third.

BAA chief information officer Philip Langsdale, speaking at a Microsoft customer and partner event in London, said, “We are moving away from a fairly complex design. It is much easier if you can hold Microsoft accountable for whole chunks of your design.”

Windows 7 supports the BAA simplification strategy. “Complexity breeds costs. Windows 7 seems to work out of the box. We want to get away from over-engineering through enhancing the operating systems ourselves.”

It’s always great to read what people are saying about Windows 7, I suspect this might be the platform that many enterprises look at in terms of migration, just like many organizations skipped Windows 2000 and went straight to XP.

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