Are you a Windows user? Are you amongst the 32.8% of those using Windows XP? I have one question to ask: Why?
We knew 52% of desktop PCs still run XP, but what about all PC users? The Next Web says that while usage of Windows 7 has risen from 28% to 46%, Windows XP usage has still stayed high, going from an even more mind boggling 45% to its current 33%. Also, LOL at nobody using Vista anymore. [TheNextWeb via Geekosystem]
JohnHedge
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:58 AMI’m still using WinXP. A great o/s. I’ve tried Vista which was rubbish. I’ve tried Win7 Ultimate 64 which is great but too expensive. Win8 doesn’t impress me so far. It looks like Win7 with a new front end.
Reverting to WinXP I found the nVidia driver gave me a toolbar across my dual monitors and far more control over the desktop backgrounds which for some reason they’d discontinued for Vista+. Yeh! I also found Thoosje Window7 gadgets.
So my computer runs well and looks very good. What benefit/s are there to upgrade; none! Just an empty wallet.
Sicarius123
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:35 AMIt’s expensive because you waited too long.
Early adopter deals from Microsoft were only $50 a licence. Upgraded all my families computers when they were doing it.
Barry
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:10 AMI only use XP because management at my work refuses to upgrade our PC’s. Sometimes the decision of OS of choice is out of your hands.
JohnB
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:32 AMMy work PC runs XP, and at 5 years old it is due for replacement. For work it does what I need it to do, however I do have Win7 64 bit at home and know I look forward to the day I get a new PC at work.
Lillee
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:41 AMThere isn’t a choice at work according to our IT dep
Roland
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:50 AMI just moved my company from WinXP to Win7, I suspect other companies will be doing it a lot sooner now since SP1 was released for Win7 a whilse a go now.
God I can’t wait for those stupid companies to upgrade so they ditch effing IE6
Jp
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:04 AMwork enforced SOE.
Theoretically, there’s an upgrade plan to get us over to Win7, but they’re taking their sweet time.
Harvz
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:14 AMim still running XP at home. after Vista i thought i would wait and see how Win 7 was, missed all the good deals and am not willing to pay $200 and dont want to steal it. Going to wait till Win 8 get a deal when it comes out
Frank
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:14 AMIf it aint broke….
light487
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:23 AMIf it does what you want, on the hardware you have.. then it’s just fine thank you vey much.
I personally have Win7 on my main machines but still use XP for my old PC when I want to use my USB Keyboard (the type you play music on) and other audio equipment.. it’s much more stable and compatible with that stuff.
Craig
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:37 AMI moved all my PC’s to 7 s day it was available, BUT, I’ve worked with 2 companies that still have 2/3 of their machines as XP because:
1. They’re using old, expensive software that won’t run on 7.
2. They have old custom web apps that only work in ie6
both were MS partners so the upgrade would be free.
The consumer side is:
1. You can’t do an in place upgrade from XP to 7
2. It’s expensive
3. XP is good enough, people just don’t see a need
The Joker
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 2:49 PMAnd that’s a big part of it……you can’t upgrade from XP even thought MS give you the BS line that you can buy and upgrade it’s still a complete from the ground up install.
luke
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:48 PMYou can always do a migration using windows easy-transfer (WET) which you need to download on xp… not sure of the flaws in the data migration
Drew
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:40 AMI dropped XP the second Vista came out, and never looked back.
The memory management on Vista is a huge improvement over XP and even better with Windows 7.
Also I would die if I didn’t have peak any more, just die.
Muskrat
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:38 AMThe partner has a hi end Win7 sys as she trades & needs to use an IE browser, in her case 9.
I use XP with FF8 & its great, I love it & know it well. I prefer it to Win7. I may look at Win8 tho if its THAT good..
Drew
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:56 AMFirefox is really bloated these days, Chrome launches much faster.
IE and Firefox take a few seconds to open where as Chrome is instant. I know it just always runs in the background which is how it opens so quickly and I love it!
olearymo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:17 PMThankyou Drew! I thought I was the only person who didn’t actually hate Vista! Don’t get me wrong, Win 7 is much better, but I never understood the bilespewing Vista seemed to cause among people.
Sadly, still using XP at work. Getting 7 soon though, and it’s been an uphill battle!
Shah
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:16 AMI’ve got a couple of older computers, with 2G RAM, which still work VERY well with XP for the basics, which is all they need to do i.e. web browsing and word processing. No need to spend money upgrading. When they die, I’ll get new PCs with OEM Win7 – or maybe play with Linux again…
Bruwer
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:39 AMFirstly these computers surveys are notoriously flawed. Their samples are not representative.
A quick look around the businesses in this street (actually not that quick). 62 PCs with 11 running Win7, 9 running Win98 (!!), and the rest on XP. Why? General answer, because if in works don’t change it.
ALL of the Win 7s came on new PCs. The Win 98 owners said that their hardware/software needed to be upgraded to run on any other system. And it was not worth the trouble. They saw no need to change.
Leo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:46 AMI use XP as my Windows partition because my Alienware won’t run any other version of windows, Alienware never updated the drivers for their proprietry video and networking solutions. Granted its an old machine but its still pretty powerful and runs Ubuntu 11.10 fine. When I want to get Steam or iTunes going I boot back into XP
David
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:02 AMI upgrade Ubuntu every six months, but my Windows partition stays on XP. I boot into it ocasionally if I need some Windows-only app. Why upgrade?
bazuden
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:58 AMThe company I work for has almost 40,000 users on XP. We only just upgraded from IE6 to IE8 about a month ago.
There’s even a couple of application servers that are running Windows NT :/
McLargehuge
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 12:12 PMMy work PC still uses XP because half of the programs I require wont run on newer versions of windows, much to the disgust of the IT department.
The rest of the time I use a Mac, so who cares.
david
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:38 PMC’mon guys Windows 7 is free for home use!
Why would anyone every buy Windows?
Especially when your household runs 5 PC’s, like yeah right $1000 for OS software, keep dreaming.
Braid
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:18 PMno it isn’t
me2
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:51 PMBecause some medical software is still only certified for use on XP and I’m not talking about a small medical software vendor.
olearymo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:18 PMYes, they really should life their game. Really, really life it. :P