Thread: windoze 10...will or wont I

Originally Posted by theresanothersteve

Not sure where you get your figures from:

I'd strongly recommend against using XP now.

It was a lame attempt at humour. But look at your own graph. 7 is ancient, and it's it's incredibly vulnerable. I'll also go so far as to say that graph is like comparing Android to IOS. Sure, there are a LOT of crap systems out there, in poky little shops as POS machines, or China. How about a graph of home users in middle class ( sorry) suburbs where money isn't an issue. See what you get then.
Just so you know, I wouldn't use XP either. But then, I left Windoze behind 17 years ago, and boy do I not miss it.
That said, I can run Windoze XP, 7, and 10 using Parallels. And I never do.

A lot of businesses are running Windows 7.

I'd guess this is to protect themselves from the user resistance to a large change, such as that posed by going to Windows 8, 8.1, and 10. Much like the user resistance to the ribbon.

The other factor is businesses tend to skip generations, as can be seen by the reluctance to go to Vista from XP. By the time 7 came along, which was seen as a good operating system, businesses had to update their aging XP boxes.

What I find interesting is the split between 8 and 8.1. I would of thought most users would automatically update, especially given 8.1 was a 'softer' option that booted to the desktop rather than the start (tiles) screen. I suspect quite a few weren't aware of the update, and didn't go looking for it in the app store because they expected Windows Update to do it for them.

Interestingly, as a developer of IT training resources for vocational training, we are starting an increase in demand for resources using Windows 10 and Office 2016.