http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/haha xp will never die]]>Jul 12th 2010 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/It seems somebody now understands that the "Windows 7 hits 150 million licenses: that's seven copies a second", is largely due to Vista users looking for a solution and new PC buyers.
]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
Also explain why Microsoft is a more superior OS.]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/...microsoft is not an operating system, it's a company]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/hey XP is good for low end machines if you still want to be able to run windows programs (without the use of wine or virtual machines)]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Hoho! I see what you did thar!]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
On behalf of those of us who are forced to fix problem after problem on these machines, F*** Y** MICROSOFT.]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
I agree, and I wonder if Microsoft will ever drop the price of Windows XP.

A quick check on NewEgg shows that I can get a copy of 9 year old XP for $99.... or a fresh copy of Windows 7 for $99]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/It would run like shit since xp can't even fully use two cores]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
It's a company who make XP. The complete name for XP is Microsoft Windows XP. ]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/That's because XP is awesome. Not sure what happened after XP, but MS needs to go back to its roots and just make XP2. Same UI, same organization, same everything, but much faster and secure.]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/honestly I hated XPs interface
looks cartoonish and the system options is poorly organized
I've come to love windows 7 interface]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/MS killed Kin but they can't kill XP...]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
My work machine is a core2 quad with 8gb ram. I use every bit of the specs.
This would be impossible on XP]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 12th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Running XP on 24 cores would be a lot like running it 4, or 2, or a good strong 1 for that matter. XP's single-thready software hit its performance peak long ago. Anything more than a good P4 and 2gb of ram is going to waste on that antiquated OS.

]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Microsoft isn't an OS. It's a company. ]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Dammit! I just realized someone else said the exact same thing. lol.]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
Hey any store I go to there's a mac right next to the pc's. If the users wanted to they could opt for the mac; they just simply aren't. It's a choice - people want Windows no matter what you keep fooling yourself. The argument that most people are using Windows because they have no choice is nonesense; you make it sound like the only way to get a Mac is to fly all the way to cupertino and gets Jobs to hand you one. The marketplace has spoken; the mac is a niche platform and even the sucky Windows Vista outsold every single Mac ever sold from 1970-2008.]]>Jul 12th 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
If XP is perfectly fine for businesses... what does Windows 7 add for the home user that XP couldn't deliver? It just makes me wonder why Microsoft even bothered with Vista and Windows 7.

Most people today only browse the web and visit Facebook at home anyway. Seems like Microsoft could have saved a couple billion dollars by just continuing to make service packs for XP instead of making 2 brand new OSes that no one needs.

I guess my question is... why do new operating systems come out when the old ones are just fine? For about 9 years... Windows XP was THE operating system to have. Businesses moved from Windows 98 *to* XP at some point... why can't they move *to* Windows 7? Do they really need 10 more years?

If there's gonna be Windows XP for offices and Windows 7 for home... that's fine. But that's probably not what Microsoft intended. I bet the original Windows XP team was relieved to finally move on to Vista and Windows 7... only to be dragged back to supporting XP again...]]>Jul 13th 2010 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
I know that sh#t head. It just a figure of speech which you fail to realize.]]>Jul 13th 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/I think even that would be possible considering that they fixed 4Gb RAM limitation extending addressing from 32 bit to 34 bit.
Won't be surprising to see Service Pack 4(SP4), SP5, ... ]]>Jul 13th 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
Yeah after using windows 7 for over a year now I cant imagine owning even a netbook running xp. Companies just dont have a need big enough to justify the cost of a switch from xp to 7. Serves Microsoft right for making a quality OS in 2001.]]>Jul 13th 2010 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/still ponders me why the hell they left a downgrade option for vista because for businesses that can really is a downgrade]]>Jul 13th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
Last week I was surprised to find out the company I work for is going to be upgrading from XP to Win7 in the near future. I thought it would be at least a couple more years. Vista was skipped over like the plague.

So, there go 120,000 more Win 7 licenses.]]>Jul 13th 2010 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Jul 13th 2010 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
http://i30.tinypic.com/1zyd7xf.jpg

Could it be that you're a clueless moron who's talking straight out of his arse?]]>Jul 13th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
The issue with 64bit is far far behind us.]]>Jul 13th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/You do not upgrade XP! IT upgrades YOU!]]>Jul 13th 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/And to repeat - what has this got to do with business? Most business apps (engineering apps excluded) do not even need more than a P4 to run efficiently; let alone a dualcore system.]]>Jul 13th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/Gee, great... Another 10 years of IE6.]]>Jul 13th 2010 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/The way I see it, businesses will only switch from XP, when the alternatives match it's stability and speed. Don't fix what ain't broken. But all these Win7 Fanboys here don't realise that these businesses don't care about your features and better performance on better machines, as they're using word and outlook and need about 1 GHz to do that well. It's like IE6 vs IE7, IE7 is tons better, but it's bloated and uses about 200MB RAM, unlike IE6's 5MB.]]>Jul 13th 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
The XP Theme Song:

Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you,
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

XP will continue to rickroll users everywhere.]]>Jul 13th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/
I work in IT on a helpdesk actually. All those who say that XP is fine, I agree to a point. We have lenovo T500's and X301's for the most part with a few Dells for our CAD laptops. We did not "upgrade" to Vista and we will eventually go to 7 but XP does not manage things as well as 7.

Now to manage LEAP, XP needs software that runs on top of the OS. To manage our fingerprint readers, we needs software that runs on top of the OS. There are a lot of simple things that do not integrate into XP. They work because the hook into login scripts but that causes HUGE problems and lots of bluescreens when either Lenovo or MS update files. Aircards are a pain in the ass too.

Now we have a few hundred windows 7 test machines and windows will handle all of that extra stuff in parallel with the OS. No longer is there Lenovo software fighting for control with ATI's or Verizon/AT&T's software. things are much smoother.

Also, rolling out new computers with 7 is faster and uses less man power than XP. There is an automated system that will point to a server and pull images down much like SCCM and WSUS do for applications and updates.

It allows for companies to be more productive. ]]>Jul 13th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/I see what you did there.]]>Jul 13th 2010 8:52AM