Windows 7 has the most to gain from XP’s impending demise

[Lars28]

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Source: Yahoo News

With support for Windows XP due to end next week, XP’s market share has predictably started to decline… but it’s not benefiting Windows 8 nearly as much as it’s benefiting Windows 7. The Next Web points out that NetMarketShare’s latest numbers show a predictable decline of nearly two percentage points for Windows XP over the last month along with a rise of a combined 0.62 percentage points for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and a rise of 1.46 percentage points for Windows 7. This means that between the end of February and the end of March, Windows 7 adoption grew more than twice as fast as Windows 8 adoption.

None of this is all that surprising. Windows 8 has been a very polarizing operating system for many PC users and anyone who has resisted upgrading from Windows XP for this long will probably decide to go with a platform that feels more familiar to them and not a platform that’s radically different from the old one.

Speaking of Windows XP, NetMarketShare says it still accounted for 27.69% of the desktop market at the end of March, which means that there are a lot of users out there who are willing to brave the storm of malware that hackers have planned for them once support ends on April 8th.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/windows-7-most-gain-xp-impending-demise-132002153.html

[msongs]

1. 7 is great, 8 is designed to sell crApps from the windows store nt

[SoapBox]

2. Agreed.

[paulkienitz]

12. 7 is my favorite -- well, least unfavorite -- Windows

I never got why XP was so popular. The last one I liked as well as 7 was 2000.

[ballyhoo]

3. I have all three.

Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 on my first desk and Windows 8.1 on my Dell Venue 8 Pro on my second desk. I bought the Venue 8 because I wanted to learn Windows 8. It is so badly designed it blows my mind. I love the Windows 7 and use it most of the time. However, it still ranks second to XP Pro, which still works the best and is more user friendly. Some day I'll have to bury my XP Pro and that will be sad. XP was designed well during a time the designers seemed to care about users. Windows 8 was designed by people who ostensibly didn't care at all about users.

[MicaelS]

5. I disagree about XP Pro over W7.

I've used 95, 98, XP, 2000, and various forms of W7 at home and work. Haven't used 8. IMO, W7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever made. It is much more stable that XP. I have had one BSOD with W7, and that was the fault of a bad driver from a 3rd party, not MS. I used to have BSOD with XP all the time, especially when overclocking a system. I used to have to do clean installs of XP every 6 months or so because of registry corruption. With W7 that is simply not the case. I am running a 2 year old install of W7 64 bit on my current system.

I am about to build a new system utilizing 32GB of DDR3 and using W7 Pro 64 bit. One third of that will be running a ramdisk. No way XP would let me do that.

[ballyhoo]

7. I have Windows 7 64 bit on an Acer Aspire with 16 gigs of RAM. I have had no

BSOD's on the 7 and not many on the XP--none for a long time since I did a fix, which I can't remember what is was now. I like Windows XP Pro better because of the User friendliness. I don't install Networks or Computers anymore, so I am not so absorbed with the technical stuff. I don't need a ramdisk like I used to. So, we really have no argument. You are at a different place then me. One thing, I just found out. My Sysco modem just went out and I updated to an Arris TM822. I can not believe how much faster the Internet runs now. Charter gave it to me for free because Charter won't let you buy your own modem anymore, which they told me after I bought a brand new Netgear DocSis 3.0, which I can't take back to Frys because I ripped the inside carton. So unless I find someone who wants to buy this I'm out $68.00 for a modem I can't use. I have everything networked so don't really need another modem. Oh, well, this computer talk is giving me a headache. I feel like I'm talking to the Quarterdeck Memory Management people from years ago, which is probably before your time. It's more technical now, but even so, all things considered, I prefer then.

[MicaelS]

9. Try DSL Reports

They have a buy / sell forum, you might sell your modem there. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/forsale

[ballyhoo]

11. Thanks.

[leftyohiolib]

4. the ONLY thing i like about w7 is that with the 64bit i can use more of my ram

[beevul]

6. 7 is amazing.

7 is amazing.

Particularly if you know which services and features to turn off, to really streamline it.

[s-cubed]

8. Nope! I'm replacing my XP machine with a MAC. nt

[kiranon]

10. Me too. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. This is analysis and not suited to Late Breaking News.

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