When do you think the XP crowd will finally move on?

pastymuncher said:
Never going to happen. I have tried several variations of Linux and hated them. The average pc user will never get their heads around it. They just want a OS that works.

XP does everything you need a OS to do. There is no compelling reason to switch to anything else. All of my family and freinds are on XP. Some have tried Vista and then went back to XP. I did this myself as i did'nt like Vista either. I have two pc's and both run XP Pro although as i have just got a couple of decent DX10 games i stuck Vista on a spare hard drive and now dual boot on my gaming pc. I would never use it for day to day tasks though and it certainly won't be going near my general purpose/internet pc. When i installed Vista i checked task manager and found that there were 52 services running!! Why on earth does it need that many? Needless to say it is being trimmed down and at the moment i am down to 34 services which is still too many. You don't even need half the rubbish that runs.
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Ha a typical vista and Linux bashing noob who thinks they know what they are talking about. :rolleyes:
 
Rhys said:
When they drop support and no patches are released will you keep it then? I doubt it.
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True point

I'm settled with xp and have been for years, though when i have to i will upgrade OS, but untill then i will continue using the most evolved, solid os ever!
 
Ross1234 said:
Ha a typical vista and Linux bashing noob who thinks they know what they are talking about. :rolleyes:
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I think his points are fair. I've used Ubuntu, Mandriva and OpenSUSE and went back to Vista every time, which I've been running since launch. I wouldn't say I hated any of the distributions, I just found them more hassle than necessary when Vista can do all of the things in a trice that Linux would spend ages trying to get through kernal changes and repositories. Not to mention games and drivers which are always Windows biased.

As for the Vista processes, that doesn't bother me and I've never noticed it. It's a next-generation operating system and if you have a Core 2 Duo and 2GB+ of RAM you wouldn't notice any performance hit. Both are standard these days with new systems. I think that MS was just trying to convince people to go with Vista when they said 1GB of RAM was fine. Everyone I know who has used it with 1GB has been struggling.
 
I am still on XP, and it does everything I want and is extremely stable (for me).

Have Vista on the laptop, only because it was pre-installed. That said, I have had no problems with that either.

However, I am sure I will move to Windows 7 on release. I was actually going to move to Vista last year. The early rumours of Windows 7 actually stopped me doing so. As it is, I will now wait.

IMO, one of the big things is people in general don`t like change. I remember dual booting win98 and XP, and would often boot 98 because it was more familiar. Also, for the more advanced users, you invest time learning about the system, specific registry changes, mods, etc. etc. You spend time tweaking it to suit your needs.

Once you install a new OS, you generally have to repeat the process. Most of us on here will enjoy that. Many will not.

I am currently dual booting XP and Win7, and, whilst I still use XP for my work and gaming, I find myself booting Win7 more and more, just to have a play.
 
Ross1234 said:
Ha a typical vista and Linux bashing noob who thinks they know what they are talking about. :rolleyes:
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To be fair he did start by saying the "average pc user"

The average PC user buys a whole system from a big highstreet or online shop. They are happy that it comes preinstalled with an OS. They just stick with whichever OS is on there (in fact they are not even sure what an OS really is). They are more likely to upgrade their whole system than just upgrade the OS, and the definitely don't want to go through the hastle of installing one from scratch, least of all one of those strange ones that "computer geeks" use.
 
I know some people (admittedly of the older generation) who still use windows 98se and see no reason to change. It does what they want (basic emails and word processing) and upgrading to a new operating system will probably just confuse them by changing where everything is and adding oodles of new features (in comparison to 98 I mean).

Point is, why change if change is just going to be more difficult than staying where you are quite happily pootling along.
 
When the media reports that a newer version of Windows is better and they have a new band wagon to jump on.
 
At home I am still running XP. Purely for the fact that I wasn't going to pay for an OS that I had no reason to upgrade too. My hardware won't utilse Vista and XP is capable of everything I need it for so why bother?

In a year or so I will be due my 3/4 year upgrade and I will probably go Win7 depending on how it's getting on.

At work all our work stations are on XP, except for a few laptops because they are new. Working in I.T and being a lazy so'n'so always brings me to the age old conclusion:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

All users are happy on XP. No added benefits from upgrading all the machines to Vista (from hardware point of view). We will stay XP here until we have a major change (which probably won't be for a year or two yet).

I agree with Lysander too, for the majority of the population XP will do everything they need it and until they maybe buy a desktop/laptop from <Insert ridiculous purple shirted shop here> which already comes with a new OS - they won't bother doing it themselves.
 
WinXP works for me so why change other than to add to MS's revenue stream...

What is there to be gained?
Im not bothered if my applications loads 1.0 seconds quicker!
Or if i have the latest and greatest superpie time ever!!!!
 
Probably when they realise that their free RAM is actually pointless and wasted RAM.

I couldn't even handle XP on my NC10 netbook. It spends half its time rebooting from a raft of updates, feels clunky and flaky. Vista is too 'heavy' but w7 is just right from early impressions.
 
when will ppl move on(not ocuk lot)?
when they need to or when microsoft offer them something they really really want.

vista has nothing to offer these ppl so unless vista comes shipped on their new pc they arent going to spend x amount of money getting it installed.
 
As long as MS keep bringing out patches for XP people wont move on, why should they.

Windows 7 should be mature by the time support for XP dries up.
 
eXor said:
Viruses and all? :p

It depends on how the person uses the PC. If they don't game, a distro like Ubuntu would easily meet their needs, provided that all the hardware in the machine is fully supported. There are drop down menus with application names in plain english. How hard can it be?
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but most people just use the OS that comes with there bought PC. Most bought PCs come with copies of windows on them because microsoft pays them to do so. So it's not going to change, since most people probably haven't upgraded there systems they bought 3 or so years ago when XP was still around.
 
To be honest I have two modern programs that crash in vista (one made by MS) but don't in xp (same computer) and I find XP much snappier on the same system. Also older programs generally run better on xp, so apart from the fact that vista x64 can find all 8GB of my memory (my xp is 32 bit) I don't really have any reason to run Vista. Windows 7 actually runs faster on my laptop then Vista does (32 bit versions) so soon I will try it on my main PC and if it is stable I will upgrade when it is released, if not I will stay with xp. Go figure...
 
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