For the Windows Ping List... Windows usage PING!
Some interesting statistics on Windows usage.
Still the most popular operating system in the world -- but it's Windows 7, not 8.x, that's winning.
Posted on 04/01/2015 9:41:38 PM PDT by dayglored
For the Windows Ping List... Windows usage PING!
Some interesting statistics on Windows usage.
Still the most popular operating system in the world -- but it's Windows 7, not 8.x, that's winning.
My brother in law in the Philippines just bought his first computer ... with W7
I wouldn’t trade Win7 for anything. I had Win8&8.1 & all that . Win8&8.1 seemed to me a clumsy attempt to make you home pc/laptop into a cell phone & vice versa. It just didn’t work- & there were too many assumptions by the program writers imho. It was , as I experienced 8&8.1 that you were expected to know where to go (from a laptop)and you knew where “the stuff” (as I call it) was & they hit sh*te instead of making it plainly accessible. I mean, what is so outdated about Win7 anyway? It was all very amateurish on their part to completely abandon the designer/writer of Win7& it’s versions who were so beautifully written\
Note-regarding XP is the stuff that ATM’s run on & in the “finance” industry I’ve heard not very many companies have upgraded..
That Win7 & it’s version is awesomely clear . If Win7,etc goes out the proverbial window I’m screwed
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?
Win 7 will be around until 2020 when its updates stop. It’ll still work after that but will lose security updates.
Dell still bundles its high end engineering workstations, the Precisions, with Windows 7.
Actually, there is a very simple reason.
Many people I deal with every day are choosing new systems with Windows 7 because Microsoft has offered to give Windows 10 free to all current owners of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
This was a brilliant move since you may purchase either operating system, whichever you are comfortable with, and still get the new one when it is available.
Since Windows 10 will bring back some of the features of the classic Start button, it should make users of either 7 or 8 happier.
Win-Win for everyone.
I like Windows 7.
The theme packs are kool. And it can do everything that WinXP does, without too much new stuff (like asking if a program should run as administrator, that kind of thing).
I have an Optiplex GX520, and see no reason at all to go to Win 8 or 10.
Agreed. But "fixing it" by having new releases is how MSFT makes money.
From an XP user making a slow transition to Win 7. Still finding Office 200 more than adequate.
I’m just now converting the majority of my business clients from XP to W7. I’ll keep them on W7 until MS produces something that is compatible with the hundreds of millions of current PC applications and user interfaces, and is substantially more productive than Windows 7. Should that case not arise from MS, then there’s no business case for “upgrading” from Windows 7 as there will be no positive return on investment.
And having worked extensively with W10 TP releases, I can tell you W10 ain’t it. W10 is nothing but a gussied up W8.x with nothing new in it that’s needed on enterprise or SMB PCs. There’s nothing in W10 that’s not being put their solely to foster MS’s vain hope of growing their currently shrinking 3% worldwide smartphone market share. Cortana, Spartan, APIs for universal device applications, improved MS App Store, integrated MS cloud, integrated MS Bing, and all the rest are things for cell phones and/or things MS wants to try to make money off of. Not a one of these things is useful for enterprise and SMB PCs.
W10 is going to be almost as big a bomb for MS as W8.x
agreed but one would think if one program is so succesfully used those who wrote it would call it a “Maytag” .
who knows? i’m not in the tech biz
Cannot imagine trying apple (you are not allowed to alter that setting) OS stuff ever again, at least for a wife that cannot remember a thing I try and teach her, it might not be a bad idea.
There is indeed a place for an OS for the technically hopeless......
Understandable! Have purchased 3 Windows 7 disks for my home network in the last 3 months but never considered Windows 8 at all...heh. Something about the net reviews turned me off to 8...hmmm.
Haha... Windows 10 upgrade...Haha... Yes, that is the trick! I really love buying an operating system just to insure an upgrade to a much later version! Haha... My company President is laughing also...Haha...
W10 will have to be a much better system (with so many more features - multi core, multi program, better memory management, etc, before it should even be considered!
I’m really tired of these Windows upgrades without major feature advances..what’s the use? Don’t give me the user interface argument please...I want core processor features!!
I was able to get a refurbished Windoze 7 laptop with a warranty from a major retailer for under $300. So I took that deal. It works great for an HP 15" laptop.
Refurb from a major retailer was the way to go for me, in that instance.
I knew I didn't want windoze 8.
For everything important, and personal, I have linux Mint that is pain free.
That's what I'm posting from now.
/johnny
I can believe what you are saying because that is the way Microsoft works! Lots of glitz, with little change inside the engine. That is the problem and why I wait for an answer! They keep changing the user interface instead of improving the engine - their major problem!
I have my laptop with 8.1 setup to look, and behave like Win 7, but the touchscreen still works when I need it.
Ummm... no
First of all Windows 8 was not a bomb. It’s one of the highest selling Operating systems ever. 200 million Windows 8 licenses had been sold as at February 2014. That’s no bomb.
The second point is, unlike Win 8, Windows 10 is totally free for Win 7 and Win 8/8.x users, even those with pirated copies. Equally important, it comes as a Windows update, making installation much easier. I will bet you one thing, Windows 10 will be the fastest deployed/installed Windows in history and it will gain market share faster than any Windows before it, albeit, Microsoft will not be making much of any money from it.
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