News - Microsoft's Windows 7 ousts Windows XP

[HEXUS]

Pushes past in the market-share stakes.

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[Terbinator]

...good?

[OilSheikh]

Still not reached the 68% mark

[kingpotnoodle]

Caveat: Based on machines accessing the internet, in particular those sites that are surveyed.

So it has about that of the consumer market maybe, but the business market is much more obfuscated behind proxy servers, firewalls, internet garbling blocky things etc... so I doubt the accuracy of the results to be honest. I've been interviewing with a lot of technology focused companies lately and seen a depressing amount of XP desktops on my wanders through offices, so I dread to think what the laggards are running.

[cheesemp]

Caveat: Based on machines accessing the internet, in particular those sites that are surveyed.

So it has about that of the consumer market maybe, but the business market is much more obfuscated behind proxy servers, firewalls, internet garbling blocky things etc... so I doubt the accuracy of the results to be honest. I've been interviewing with a lot of technology focused companies lately and seen a depressing amount of XP desktops on my wanders through offices, so I dread to think what the laggards are running.

Too true. I work for what is basically a software development company and we're all on XP. Even us developers - we never stop moaning about though. 3.2Gb of RAM just isn't enough for dev work now. Its frustrating but all down to IT dept being unable to do a role out. Its looks like we're just going to buy and run our own Win 7 boxes now (in parallel). Hate to think how many small offices stuck on unpatched XP or older!

[3dcandy]

far more business pc's on XP than anything else....all the banks I go in, for example which aren't connected to the t'internet

[miniyazz]

Caveat: Based on machines accessing the internet, in particular those sites that are surveyed.

So it has about that of the consumer market maybe, but the business market is much more obfuscated behind proxy servers, firewalls, internet garbling blocky things etc... so I doubt the accuracy of the results to be honest. I've been interviewing with a lot of technology focused companies lately and seen a depressing amount of XP desktops on my wanders through offices, so I dread to think what the laggards are running.

Windows 2000.

[3dcandy]

had to install Win98SE for a legacy product last week (before anyone asks it's an Akai Sampler) and wow...so quick, but so basic

[Urbanite]

Hey XP isn't pretty but it works most of the time. Windows 7 like Windows vista isnt really all that much of an upgrade so I can see why most companies would stick with XP for business use.

[3dcandy]

Hey XP isn't pretty but it works most of the time. Windows 7 like Windows vista isnt really all that much of an upgrade so I can see why most companies would stick with XP for business use.

I really don't agree, Win 7 is an excellent OS, far, far better than XP. Problem is, for example, that banks rely on IE 6. however, that's for another thread...

[Urbanite]

I really don't agree, Win 7 is an excellent OS, far, far better than XP. Problem is, for example, that banks rely on IE 6. however, that's for another thread...

Is windows 7 really that much better if all your doing is word processing and spreadsheets? Whilst I agree windows 7 is a good upgrade for consumers, for the average small to medium sized company there is little to no benefits of upgrading from XP to 7. I think we are starting to see an uptake of windows 7 beacuse it is almost impossible to buy a new prebulit machine without it!

[3dcandy]

Much better protection against virus and malware attacks for starters? I'd be happy to roll out Win 7 for that alone...I also believe that once people get used to it, it's a much faster OS to work with, so productivity *should* rise...

[simonpreston]

Hey XP isn't pretty but it works most of the time. Windows 7 like Windows vista isnt really all that much of an upgrade so I can see why most companies would stick with XP for business use.

Can see where you're coming from but running 2000/XP is really leaving machines open to attacks. Windows 7 is a very much tweaked and refined Vista (even Vista with SP2 isn't that bad tbh, although not perfect). And yes, is far more secure.

[kingpotnoodle]

Is windows 7 really that much better if all your doing is word processing and spreadsheets? Whilst I agree windows 7 is a good upgrade for consumers, for the average small to medium sized company there is little to no benefits of upgrading from XP to 7. I think we are starting to see an uptake of windows 7 beacuse it is almost impossible to buy a new prebulit machine without it!

Windows 7 offers a lot more than a shiny UI - there is a proper mainstream stable 64 bit version, better security features, usability tweaks (jump lists etc), networking improvements, more control via group policies... it's all stuff that reduces time spent by the IT department and increases productivity.

XP is way past it's best, it's like a dodgy old car, sure it gets you there but it's hardly in comfort or style, needs a lot of time at the garage and you can't overload the boot because it can't get up the hills (bad address space analogy).

[KillaKingDL]

lol, I work in insurance and we still use NT =P

[[GSV]Trig]

From where I sit at work we haven't upgraded as we have to wait until our warehouse system is released and supports a new OS.
Then there's also the added cost of ugrading our Adobe stuff... at least Ms give you SA..