Latest Announcemnent
New thread

What's Keeping You On XP?

Status
Not open for further replies.
D

Daniel

Active Member
16,012
2009
3,074
10
PC World reports that Windows XP lost more than 11 percent of its share from September to December 2011, to post a December average of 46.5 percent, a new low for the aged OS as users have gotten Microsoft's message that the operating system should be retired. Figures indicate that Windows 7 will become the most widely used version in April, several months earlier than previous estimates. Two months ago, as Microsoft quietly celebrated the 10th anniversary of XP's retail launch, the company touted the motto 'Standing still is falling behind' to promote Windows 7 and demote XP. In July, Microsoft told customers it was 'time to move on' from XP, reminding everyone that the OS would exit all support in April 2014. Before that, the Internet Explorer team had dismissed XP as the 'lowest common denominator' when they explained why it wouldn't run IE9. The deadline for ditching Windows XP is in April 2014, when Microsoft stops patching the operating system. 'Enterprises don't want to run an OS when there's no security fixes,' says Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner Research rejecting the idea that Microsoft would extend the end-of-life date for Windows XP to please the 10% who have no plans to leave the OS. 'The longer they let them run XP, the more enterprises will slow down their migration.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/247174/users_bail_on_windows_xp_bigtime.html
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...dows-xps-ten-year-anniversary-mean-to-you.ars
http://www.pcworld.com/article/235472/microsoft_wants_windows_xp_shoved_out_the_door.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221403/Windows_XP_loses_record_share_as_decline_quickens
 
17 comments
Allot of software for developers (more hardware specific developers) and technicians doesn't run smooth or doesn't run at all on W7.
Aside from that, my main computer, which (alongside Linux) runs Windows, and then it's booted up (without anything running) it already ate up 1.6GB of my RAM.
I have a P4 machine with 512mb laying around, running WinXP, this machine only uses 160mb ram when booted up!

If you ask me, I fully understand why some people/companies are still running XP, it's a great OS!
 
I would say the only people who stay on XP "Most of the majority" are people who don't know how to use a computer so they don't bother with the technical stuff.
 
I would say ram, is keeping a lot of people from upgrading due to their lack of available ram.

And are scared to buy any other computer system/
 
Many corporations and government organizations have stringent security requirements. Everything must be tested and approved. Security plans must be written the spell out everything on the network. This work is very time consuming and expensive to upgrade all computers. Thus I'd expect slow adoption and inertia. One could argue that updating to the latest will result in better security, but not always and bureaucracy is rarely logical.
 
The RAM usage along with the overall speed. I hate the drivers support for 64-bit XP along with some of its user interface (which I'm used to in 7).
 
i Feel they should continue their support to XP!!
its bug free and no more updates so whats wrong if old products is still getting em profits!?
considering the low Config PC's they have no other go apart from XP!!
 
When coming to xp many people are habituated to xp like the people with silver in hair and gold in teeth they still prefer xp so its a new world for them if we give them windows 7 and new ones so microsoft should continue the support for windows xp
 
If you have a computer that is less than a yr or 2 old XP will eat the ram so if your computer has 8gb or ram XP will only show it as having 4gb. My new computer I just got has 6gb of ram I hate windows 7 I would be using XP but I want the full use of 6gb ram
 
^^ That is only down to running a x86 version of XP (32bit), if you used a x64 version (64bit) you would be able to use all the RAM it has nothing to do with XP as such it is only down to the differences between 32bit and 64bit.

JGM.
 
I stay on XP because I have a lifetime serial from my college. It's a student serial for testing xp and i can install and uninstall XP as many times as I want and the key always works ;) No reason for me to change honestly...
 
@^ lol BArcode
i have a great application called LOADER
it loads key everytime, so i can load my W7 anytime and everytime!!
 
We can always download XP Mod from microsoft for virtual XP on Win7.
Once you use Win7 for 2weeks, you will feel that XP is quite out-dated unless your resources are limited such as RAM, CPU that will freeze or chock Win7.
 
I see no point in using XP now since Windows 7 is superior in every way and I don't use old programs so it matters little to me what happens to XP.

JGM.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top