According to NetApplications, Windows XP has fallen below 40 percent market for the first time since it passed the mark a decade ago. Windows 7 kept its majority stake, at 44.71 percent, up from 36 percent at the beginning of the year. XP began the year at 47 percent. Vista continued its slow but sure decline, falling from 8 percent at the beginning of the year to 5.7 percent now. ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by molsen:As is mine..............sad!
I know there are enterprise users making up this stat. Heck, my company is still using XP on their machines.
Originally posted by hearme0:The old dogs just like to let suckers like you iron out all the bugs first so they can move to a stable platform when the time is right.
The old dogs using this lame assed antiquated OS vary rarely can learn new tricks.
Originally posted by hearme0:Mine as well. IT can't manage to make a stable image with 7, let alone make their own workstations stable. Fortunately we're pretty isolated and I've upgraded out little corner to Win7x64.
Originally posted by molsen:As is mine..............sad!
I know there are enterprise users making up this stat. Heck, my company is still using XP on their machines.
Originally posted by plazma247:Gotta love that, our company of 1400+ workstations still had around 50 with Win2k back when Vista dropped (obviously a few years back) but nothing can compare to delivering a printer to install, only to have to find one with NT support! Really old workstation was in a lab, connected to dedicated equipment. Now that was definitely the time I had to let those technicians know of a disaster plan!
xp, meh i just pulled out the last windows 2000 workstation from a clients which had been hidden away cowering in the corner trying to evade replacement lol.
Originally posted by Schmick:That's the same lame excuse we've heard forever, and it's still BS. Fact is, and you can research this if you like, W7 was more stable out of the box than XP ever was. XP shipped with over 1500 known bugs while W7 was less than 500. The kernel was infinitely more secure as were the HAL and application layers. You can keep telling yourself that story every night before bedtime if it makes you feel better, but it's still just a story without basis in truth.
Originally posted by hearme0:The old dogs just like to let suckers like you iron out all the bugs first so they can move to a stable platform when the time is right.
The old dogs using this lame assed antiquated OS vary rarely can learn new tricks.
Originally posted by Tarsellis:
Originally posted by hearme0:Mine as well. IT can't manage to make a stable image with 7, let alone make their own workstations stable. Fortunately we're pretty isolated and I've upgraded out little corner to Win7x64.
Originally posted by molsen:As is mine..............sad!
I know there are enterprise users making up this stat. Heck, my company is still using XP on their machines.
Originally posted by hearme0:^ Agreed that is honestly pathetic ...
Originally posted by Tarsellis:
Originally posted by hearme0:Mine as well. IT can't manage to make a stable image with 7, let alone make their own workstations stable. Fortunately we're pretty isolated and I've upgraded out little corner to Win7x64.
Originally posted by molsen:As is mine..............sad!
I know there are enterprise users making up this stat. Heck, my company is still using XP on their machines.
Your IT should be fired! I'm in IT. Network Admin. Let your team know I'm ready to school them on IT basics for 125/hour.
..........scratch that! They should NEVER EVER be allowed to touch a keyboard again.
Originally posted by molsen:Maybe I had something to do with this decline. I took a new job in May with a school district that was about 90% XP even on their newer computers because no one knew how to image using Windows 7. Now today I am happy to say it is more like 90% Windows 7.
I know there are enterprise users making up this stat. Heck, my company is still using XP on their machines.
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