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

[Bomag]

To those of you desperately defending XP - why did you upgrade from Windows 2000?

I only upgraded to get media centre (MCE 2005 edition, four years after XP was released!) and still use the classic W2k interface. Also I still use W2k on my older PCs and servers.

For most people there has to be at least one 'must have' feature. It's no use having a number of 'nice' features it has to be a killer. For me even though I dual boot the only time I use Vista is for editing HD video where I need to use all 4gb of memory. I understand why the technology is supposed to produce a better OS but for Vista the whole is less that the sum of its parts.

 

[MouseMat2004]

I have a friend who will not even contemplate anything other than XP... He tried Vista once, when it was first released, it didnt support his hardware and that was it and from there he has read all the hate posts throughout the internet and never looked back.

Reckoned that everything took an extra click to get to... We spent ages going from place to place, Him on XP and Me on Vista, it was either the same or Vista was less...

He said it was slow.... which it was on 512/1GB ram and pre SP1 but not on decent hardware.

The list was endless. He did exactly the same when upgrading from Win2k>XP. Would not budge because XP was slow and unstable...

I found Vista very quick on a good PC but it is pretty slow on a slower PC with 1GB or less ram but its exactly the same for XP, give it 256MB ram and it will crawl, just because 1GB is enough for XP to fly why should 1GB be enough for Vista?

I don't see any reason to stick with XP unless it's just a case of saving face to people who you have slated Vista to but one thing for sure.... there is NO excuse to rule out Win7, it is everything that Vista should had been, it runs better on slower than machines than Vista ever will...probably even better than XP!

 

[Meatball]

I dislike using XP now, everything about it feels dated. As soon as you pop the disk in to begin the installation I feel like I'm stepping back in time. I'm a novice with computer networks but with Vista's Network & Sharing I set-up a home network in a flash. Vista is much better looking than XP, Aero looks smart and the high-res redesigned icons are lovely. Silly thing I know but I like having high-res icons. Vista is a brilliant O/S imo and W7 is looking to be an enhanced Vista so I will most likely upgrade come W7 release. I will try the BETA beforehand though, I like the look of the new taskbar but whether I get along with it is another matter.

 

[badgaz1]

I think people are right in saying that generally people just stick the the OS they have on the computer when they buy it, and only change their OS when they buy a new PC that happens to have a new version on it.

In regards to linux it's not very likely. I've had unusually positive reactions towards linux from people aren't computer literate. I put Ubuntu on my grandads PC just to get it up and running whilst I waited for his new PC to arrive and he got along with it perfectly fine but I ended up keeping XP on his new computer because his printer was not Ubuntu compatible and he mainly uses his computer for printing/scanning.

I was also at my girlfriends house not long ago using Ubuntu on my EEE 901 and her mum asked me to install Ubuntu on her computer as it looked good, although I chose not to because they often use iTunes and I don't think they would be impressed if i 'upgraded' them to an operating system that doesn't support it, even if it does have alternatives.

So what I would conclude from that really is that there are a lot of people out there that would be willing to try linux, but despite the major improvements it has had in the last few years I'm not sure if it is ready yet, and maybe it never will be because one of its major problems is programs that people recognise and are comfortable with (iTunes, Windows Live Messenger) are not available and a lot of people won't be willing to spend time looking for and getting used to the viable alternatives Linux offers.

 

[dbeckett]

i don't know when people will move onto w7 but hopefully the government will asap and use the newly updated encryption settings in windows7 forcing flash drives to be encrypted before they can be written to. The government has lost way too many sensitive files in the last couple of years

 

[Phil2008]

except Mac OS of course

the reason (in my opinion!) why many of the XP crowd haven't and won't move to vista is because vista offers no practical and tangible benefit over XP it not like any programs don't run on XP*

well, thats why i'm still on XP anyway.

yes, i know about Halo2 and shadowrun. don't bother telling me

Thats my reason from not moving to win7 from vista. The only reason I moved to vista from xp, was cos of directx10.