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Cautious business IT administrators are more willing to stay with Windows XP,than risk the devil they don't know -- even if the latter is the highly touted Windows 7, a research company said Monday.

According to Dimensional Research Inc., which surveyed more than 1,100 IT professionals in March, 72 per cent of those polled said that they are more concerned about the cost and overhead of migrating to Windows 7 than they are about continuing to support the eight-year-old Windows XP.

Only 28 per cent felt the opposite, that they're more worried about holding XP's hand than migrating to Windows 7.

The results not only illustrate IT's historical distrust of change, but also shows how strongly corporate administrators are wedded to the aged XP, said Diane Hagglund, an analyst at Dimensional and the survey's author.

"IT hates nothing more than change," she said, "and in the open-ended comments, there was a clear trend that people wanted to say good things about XP - things like, 'It's been very good to us.'

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