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    News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    But has a long way to go to remove XP from the top of the list.
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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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...

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    Windows 7 is basically a faster loadin version of Vista with icons and stuff moved about. :@

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    So already ahead of OS X, presumably before the majority of businesses have even looked at it.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    Still on XP at work due to general inertia, and mostly on XP at home due to personal inertia Will 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!!

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    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.
    that sounds terrible, i guess you will be ditching vista asap then?

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    I am not compelled yet to change from Vista to Windows 7. Vista doesn't seem that bad once its all sorted.
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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    that sounds terrible, i guess you will be ditching vista asap then?

    oh
    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    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.

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    Re: News - Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

    Quote Originally Posted by CyberChris View Post
    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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