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Read more.But has a long way to go to remove XP from the top of the list.
Still on xp at work, but they are looking to jump to 7 early next year. Like a lot of corps vista never had a look in.
It's the corporate standard. As soon as MS cracks that market, which will most likely happen with W7, then the numbers will move very fast.
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
From friends and collegues people are starting to move there personal computers to Windows 7.
As it is I tired getting them over to Vista, most said the heard bads things etc but the few I did convince where with me that Vista was actually a great OS if you ignored the early driver issues (anybody remember when XP first came out).
But it does seem that many are moving over to Windows 7 as its so much better than Vista, I do agree its marginally better but would hate to tell them that 7 is just a re-skinned and optimised Vista.
But as above I do think businesses are where the bulk of XP users are now. Much like my office it seems the IT team are very 'if it isn't broke why fix it', which means they will only move from XP when Microsoft stop supporting it and even that might not be a big enough push.
I'm getting tempted to roll back to XP from 7 due to instability and compatibility issues. Although a dual Linux/XP for general use/gaming might be a better solution.
I've already started moving a few people on at work... they are by and large happy to have their PC with Windows 7, it's new and shiny.
Few issues thrown up in domain services, and that's what will be the sticking point IMHO. To get the most out of Windows 7 in a domain setting it's necessary to have the directory servers running 2008 R2, which has it's own set of migration issues (loss of 32bit versions for a start).
Business is the key to those market share statistics though...
Windows 7 is basically a faster loadin version of Vista with icons and stuff moved about. :@
I use Vista 32 and XP at work, and Vista 64 U, Windows 7 64 HP, and XP at home.
To me, XP just feels dated and lacking in features and security. XP 64 has always had marginal driver and software support, and I don't like a 4GB RAM limit for RAM.
Not to mention there is no 3D Vision support for XP.
I've been using all versions of Vista since it launched and would say this about it:
The newer your hardware and software is, the less likely you are to have issues. On my main home PC I always have cutting edge hardware and pretty new software, I never had many issues with Vista. About the worst thing I could say is I had some issues with 3 way SLi early on that it took NVIDIA a month or two to sort out.
At work where the mix of software and hardware is much more varied we had more issues. I also had to keep one XP machine in my home because my wife has a version of MS Small Business Accounting (2003?) that uses MSDE as a database engine and there is no compatibility with Vista. (and back then MS wasn't offering the free upgrade they are now)
In any case, I think Vista concerns on all versions are largely misplaced now, and I'm not noticing huge differences in Windows 7 yet.
My .02
So already ahead of OS X, presumably before the majority of businesses have even looked at it.
Still on XP at work due to general inertia, and mostly on XP at home due to personal inertiaWill be migrating a couple of home PCs to Windows 7 (one from XP, one from 7 RC) before christmas though.
In 2 weeks time my primary work OS will be Windows Web Server 2K8, so my old work PC will probably remain on XP for the forseeable future - although not used much!!
My mum's pc is still on xp, my laptop is still on xp too but it's getting a bit long in the tooth at this stage. Both my main PC and my dad's laptop is on Vista. I don't really see much incentive to upgrade my existing PCs to 7 really. Next I get a laptop/serious upgrade of course it will be win7 but right now I'm happy with what I've got.
I have a singlecore Athlon running XP which is very quick for everyday web browsing. Main PC is running Vista 64 and this runs very well on a Phenom 2 triple core but XP machine is quicker for loading and web use.
I am not compelled yet to change from Vista to Windows 7. Vista doesn't seem that bad once its all sorted.
that sounds terrible, i guess you will be ditching vista asap then?Originally Posted by Brewster0101
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From what I can read Windows 7 is no faster than vista really. So don't see the point until Direct X11 games become a norm.
In the current climate I am betting most work places will remain on XP for the time being, as long as MS continue to support it. However in a couple of years I think it will become standard to see all business moving to Windows 7.
Yup, it's looking like Win7 in 12 months or so at work.
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