As Of October 2009 Windows XP Still At 70%
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As technology writers, bloggers and just about everyone who is interested in computers write all about the new operating system from Microsoft known as Windows 7, we fail to remember that good old reliable Windows XP still is the operating system of choice. Consumers are holding on to Windows XP, some even proclaiming that XP will need to be pried out of their dying hands. So when I read an article over at Arstechnica about Windows 7 beating out Snow Leopard and Linux, the number that caught my attention was the one that had Windows XP use pegged at 70.48%.
So why do people continue to love their Windows XP?
Simple. It works!
Don’t get me wrong. I am really enjoying Windows 7. But in all honesty it doesn’t really do anything any better than XP did. Or does it?
What do you think? If you are running Windows 7 and have previously been an XP user, what do you like or dislike about the new OS. What about those using Vista compared to XP?
Comments welcome.
4 Comments
John Loeffler
November 7th, 2009
at 5:29am
Comparing operating systems with all their attributes and different facets it would be hard to come to a conclusion which is number one. In the case of xp versus windows 7, I may say with many critics knocking on my door that xp is old but a goodie, and windows 7 is new and still has potential as time progresses for improvement.
James Lehman
November 8th, 2009
at 3:52pm
It took Microsoft years got get XP all stable and good. It is hard to lose. I dual boot it for hardware not supported by Vista/7. It also is being done in Virtual Machine on Virtualbox whenever they get their bugs on 7 ironed out.
John
November 9th, 2009
at 8:50am
I’ll stick with XP, why spend more money when XP is a great operating system, if I upgrade to anything, it will be to Ubuntu, I’m testing it out now and if I can run all my windows programs on it with no problem, then I will use Ubuntu since it’s free.
Neil
November 24th, 2009
at 11:30pm
Big corporations and die hard consumers are still holding on to XP because it is a solid operating system and compatibility was never an issue for a long time. Windows 7 is a great OS and when Microsoft works out the bugs, and software/hardware companies work out compatibility issues, then I think migrating to 7 will be less of an issue.
As James said, it took a while for XP to become a stable/reliable choice for 98/ME/2000 users to migrate to. The same will be true for 7, but I think that Vista will soon lie in silent on the recovery partitions of those who have upgraded to 7 and forgoten in 2 years.
Vista was a hoax anyways http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/01/ballmer-vista-joke.html