66 Percent of Windows Users Are Still Running XP
Have you upgraded from XP yet?
Windows 7 turns a year old this month, and 12 months after a successful launch, nearly everyone agrees that it is a huge improvement over Vista. However, despite this, the majority of Windows users are still running XP and have yet to upgrade to Windows 7.
Conceivably Tech reports that, though the number of Windows users still running XP is falling, it's falling at a very slow rate. Data released by Net Applications shows that Windows XP accounted for 76 percent of all Windows users when Windows 7 launched and this figure has fallen just 10 points (to 66 percent) in the last year. Though Windows 7's market share is strong and continues to grow, Net Applications data puts XP's overall September share in the OS market at 60.03 percent, down just 0.86 percent from the month before.
Conceivably Tech's Wolfgang Gruener predicts that considering XP's overall OS market share is dropping at a rate of less than one percentage point per month, it could take over a year for the nearly 10-year-old Windows XP share to drop to 50 percent of the overall market share. The data comes as we approach a particularly significant milestone for Windows XP. Microsoft's deadline for manufacturers shipping machines with Windows XP is October 22.
Source: Conceivably Tech
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"If it aint broke don't fix it"
That is probably why everyone hasn't changed
Let me tell you why I still use XP...
1. XP works just fine. Seriously, I can do everything I could possibly need/want on it. Why change?
2. Hassle. Over 60 programs (esp. games) whose CDs/DVDs are long gone. No way to port them over to W7 so I won't bother.
3. Nothing new. I know W7 has better presentation and takes more RAM but that's about it as far as I'm concerned. Unless W7 can fry my bacon while filing my tax returns, I'm simply not interested.
It kind of feels as though technology is running ahead of its functionality these days...eg iPads (and other 'Pads')...who seriously needs this crap?
I felt the same way until I actually tried 7. The bug bit and it just wouldn't let go. About 18 months after using it the first time, I upgraded. XP won't be around forever, and I can say from experience that the security on 7 is streets ahead of XP. The improvements in Windows 7 may not be that obvious on the surface, but XP now looks and feels seriously dated to me. Which in all honesty, it is.
I think the main problem is the upgrade costs 70 quid and everyone has been poor for the last 2 years.
It is better than XP though and I loved XP. DirectX 11, Better Multi-Core CPU performance, much easier and more intuitive desktop and taskbar, just a few reasons to upgrade, ability to use new GPU enhansed browsers when they are released.
I have to agree that if this was a few years ago and money was less of an issue for people that these numbers would look seriously differant.
I know lots of people who want to upgrade bits and pieces but cant justify the cost right now.
Unless I'm able to fix the slow USB copy problem, I think I'll go back to XP. I don't move large files around a lot so I've not had an issue till now.
It doesn't help that Vista set the system requirements bar too high so people have either been stung by a very slow OS (so won't do another upgrade to 7) or didn't upgrade their hardware (so don't have the hardware to run 7 anyway).
Also, I really don't see how continuing to ship XP is going to drop XP usage - Microsoft, you really can be a dumb f*** sometimes.
I can't stand XP anymore, it's a complete pain in the butt when i have to fix others PC's in work...
It's fine if people stil lwant to use it though, it's a case of preference, i personally have not missed the OS atall, Vista worked fine for me (i upgraded hardware for it) and win7 is also just as good if not better,
It's not until you've changed and go back to XP that you realise how cumbersome it can be.
Some W7 fanbois in the house I see - pretty much everybody got marked down there!
Yo douchebag, did I ever say W7 was shite? I love it and it's deployed across my entire business and home. But my comment was about the article - try reading for once.
Windows 7 is a huge improvement over XP. Every-day as well as more complex tasks are far, far easier and more pleasant to under take.
The mystery and infernal frustration for me is that company laptops issued to new staff almost invariably come with XP installed. Why oh why? It's not cheaper and it's far inferior. I could hardly believe it a year ago when I changed job and it had XP on it. My GF changed job a month ago and was issued with an XP laptop - on a decent core 2 duo machine that's perfectly capable of running 7. It's seriously insane. Company IT departments (even in non-IT companies such as mine and my GF's) didn't wait this long before upgrading to XP from NT, 2000 or 9x, so why force their staff to make do with this 8 year old OS now that there's a far superior option available?
I think the main reason is that most applications being made for windows systems will run on XP just as well as it will on Windows 7. If you rewind 10 years this was not the case with Windows XP and 9x. Most programs wouldn't work on both and this was even more the case with the hardware.
Back to 2010 and hardware support for Windows XP is still very good, and most programs will run on 7, Vista and XP.
There is also the case of Governments and Schools not upgrading their systems, and in some cases actually downgrading systems to XP to easily fit them in with using that same unattended install disc that they have been using since release!
I Love windows 7, but it's not completely without flaws.
(Doesn't like running some games made during XP, and took away other features XP had, although, i don't miss the sluggishness of XP)
I liked the whole DirectCompute idea which draws on the power of the GPU, and even when i still had my Athlon 64 3700+ (939) CPU running the 64-bit version, it didn't feel as clunky as XP (and that was a Beta/RC)
I personally have had no trouble with older games on Windows 7 64bit. The compatibility mode works very well. I also find 7 to run faster with my hardware. I liked XP but it had pleanty of problems. 7 has flaws but I find it gives me much more.