Companies That Stick With XP Will Face A Backlash?

Most places use what is suitable for the job at the best price
Hell we even have a few Windows 95 pc’s here but they do what is required, why replace them ?

I retired from public service in 2002. At the time my home machine was running Windows XP with Office 2000 for productivity work. My work machine was running NT4 on Novell and Office 95 was the productivity software. It didn’t bother me a bit. The whole system was setup in this manner and it was what I, and all my fellow employees, was expected to use. I enjoyed my better setup at home and used my work setup as my employer expected me to use it. I’m sure no one in this economy is going to be making demands that their employer run out and spend rare funds on a new OS! What rubbish to even suggest such a thing.

Hello RSW & Bruce,
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. If it still works, why replace it! Except to pad the bank balance of Microsoft.

not even close.
if you take the same hardware and load xp and vista on each one.
xp is significantly faster. we’ve run the tests here in house. Why would people want all that extra bloat. sure the eye candy is pretty but is it necessary, no I don’t think so.
Good point on the bottom line as well, who has a bunch of extra money to give to your friends in Redmond ? Anyone ? buehler ?

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I use an system at work that is outdated - IBM work stations with 512 megs of ram running office 2003.

It follows your commend Ron, if it works, why replace it?

Windows may want to push more licenses but they won’t until they make Vista far more affordable, or more stream lined.

most businesses use stripped down computers with whatever is cheap to mass use without any real issues. If we went to vista, all of the computers and their software would have to adapt, and that’s 10k + computers to update just for what? to match new computer owners? psh.

I believe Microsoft is going to be in for a surprise when businesses do not flock to Windows 7.

I totally agree, my XP PC in work is nearly 6 years old and although a little slower than some of my colleagues it more than does the job.

The only way there would be a mass adoption of the new Windows 7 or Windows Vista is if in upgrading the company would make longer term savings and I don’t feel this is the case.

One thing you forgot to mention…is Microsoft willing to pay for whatever software upgrades/testing time needing to take place to run on Vista or 7?

Hello Matthew,
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

D Lowery,
I don’t believe they will. They expect the company to absorb the cost so they can sell them a new OS.

Thanks for the comments. Ron

I will only choose Windows 7 if it’s officially released and proved to be better than XP or even Vista.

If not, i will stick to XP as Vista consumes too much of power.

Comments of desperation I would suggest from Mr Ballmer.

1. XP is not slower.
2. Staff would be more hacked off about having to get to grips with an array of new commands to do simple tasks. Especially if the ‘better system’ offers no real benefits.

I made the terrible mistake of purchasing a notebook without the XP option to save £30, believing I could install XP on dual boot. This took 2 days of my time and it still doesn’t work. The XP drivers on Dell’s own site do not work. No network connection. Stuck with Vista. I could probably buy another notebook with the value of lost productivity on Vista.

Battery life? I close my notebook to put it to sleep at night, take it home, and in the morning the battery is dead. I have to reboot, and re-create my environment.

My guess is that employees unfortunate enough to have Vista at home will be begging their LAN support personnel to help them downgrade to XP.

Thanks for the additional comments.

I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment of whether people are more worried about having the latest version of Windows or a job!

I run a technology company that provides IT / Network support to users and recently upgraded a network consisting of 30 workstations.

When I produced the quotation the customer asked to not have Windows Vista, because he used it at home and hated it and wished he could have had XP on it.

He didn’t want users who have never used Vista to constantly asking questions about how to this and how to do that.

When I roll out Vista for a client (which will be the first time!) I’m intending to roll out Vista on a PC by PC basis so that people within the company are familiar and can answer general questions before pestering me!

The other point that customer have raised is, why change PC’s that run the applications they require just to have the latest operating system?

I have found XP is quicker than Vista in some cases!!

XP forever!! lol

Sheps

It’s the kind of cheap shot comment one would expect from Microsoft, whose only interest is lining their own pockets.

XP may be old but I’d take it any time over Vista.

Like the guy above, I will only move to 7 IF it has really been proven to be better.

Oh and what’s the deal with this…6 versions of Windows 7??? WTF???

Home users often own even older computer systems than those at work. The only reason I’m not still on Win 98 at home right now is that my wife’s boss upgraded to a better system and had a Win XP laptop in need of some repair. That laptop is now my home computer. I passed my Win 98 IBM ThinkPad to an uncle who tinkers with older computers as well.

So the thought that up-to-date home users will demand more from their employers’ systems seems backward.

This CEO is an idiot. If you build a better mouse trap, people will break your door down to get it. Go back to the lab and come out with a better product than the Windows Vista you tried to unload to the general public. I bet once they started putting Windows Vista on newly sold machines that they must have had a spike in sales of Windows XP software. Your Vista always crashes and never wants to work with software that works on XP. Stop trying to milk the public and start selling us useful software you idiot!

Another idiotic propaganda by Microsoft’s CEO to buy their new slow and buggy products. And also XP is way faster than UI flooded Vista or Windows 7.

As a web designer I can’t afford to deal with the quirks of Windows Vista. I just bought two new computers this year (replacing two that were both over 6 years old) and I specifically requested XP. The companies I work with also use XP on most computers. We will have no problem switching, once we know that the bugs are gone. …so maybe never… We’ll see…

Thanks everyone for the great comments and for sharing your thoughts. It is appreciated.

With regard to upgrading I have a policy, buy whatever is going OUT and stick with it for until the next best thing expires. For example, just two years ago I shut down my Windows NT 4.0 workstation — only because XP had been on the shelfs for a couple of years — THEN I upgraded to a well tested XP — no regrets — I doubt I will ever upgrade to VISTA — I will wait until Windows 7 is about to retire and then it will be time to upgrade again.

IT for my company and fought to get XP on 25 machines, all having to have some upgrading, 2 custom built servers with 2003 sbs and no problems. We upgraded from win nt to 2000 and then XP, looked at Vista and it would not mesh with our other software and hardware, so we stuck with it and the bosses home computers were ordered with XP also even when we had to pay for the”down grade”, made sence to me. Now win 7, I’ve been using the beta for about 3 weeks now and don’t have too many complaints yet except for the 3 crashes, not sure what caused them and neither does Microsoft, according to their error report. It does run faster and doesn’t bug you too many time about your activities, but for an office enviroment with older software & hardware that will need upgrading, I’m not sure I could justify the added expence to my boss. Nice con job though, because it not the employer who will receive the complaints but me the IT guy and I’m not having any of it, jja

WinXP is the first Windows program that worked, in my estimation. I tried Vista on a new computer. By the end of the second day I had it so confused it would not even boot. I then booted from a CD and removed personal data. Happily took the computer back. Built a better computer and put on… guess what WinXP. I’m satisfied and don’t expect to change for a long time yet.

Don Shenton

I’m with you Don. I’m still running Win XP on my machine. I really could use another faster comp, but after Vista on my wifes laptop I decided to keep mine rather than buy a Vista machine. I really can’t afford to upgrade all my software and it all works fine with XP, so until Windows 7 is tried and tested I’ll stay put.