I liked Windows 7 and was reluctant to upgrade to 8.1. Once I did though, I was pleasantly surprised. Luv the quick bootup time.
company IT has 6000 laptops and desktops running 7 with all sorts of apps and citrex tied in. they are a MS supported company and even they can’t get past 7.
These statistics are based on web browsing. So if Windows XP is running on a point-of-sales system, it won’t be counted, since cash registers don’t browse the web.
There are work-arounds you can use with Windows 8 that allow one to get it to function almost the same as Windows 7. Which is how I was able to get my dad set up to where he could use it.
I know this isn’t really accurate in many ways, but to me Windows 8 makes a $600 laptop feel like you are using a $200 Android Tablet. I have been using Android tablets and phones for a long time now and still do not like the OS very much. I refuse to use Apple products because I am still disgusted with their predatory legal department tactics and their ultra-liberal leadership.
Not that Microsoft is a whole lot better, but at least Bill Gate’s has admitted that solar and wind power could not do the job. At least Microsoft has some adults still at the helm, so I don’t feel bad supporting their products.
The free upgrade offer is only good for the first year after W10 goes RTM. Microsoft says W10 is going to be the last Windows release, so this could be the last opportunity they'll have to make money on selling upgrades for awhile. I expect that upgrade won't be cheap and the people who just want to hang onto 7 forever may regret not taking that offer when they had the chance.
7 rocks. They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hard drive ... or at least until MS stops supporting it.
That, and the really painful process of installing all the patches. Now, I have no problem with there being a bunch of patches. Hell, download a copy of Fedora 21. You'll find a crapload there. However, there is a big difference in how they are managed. With Fedora, you install the OS and whatever extra programs you want that aren't installed by default by the package manager. THen once it's done, you let the automatic updates apply. Once that's complete, you reboot, and you're good to go.
Not so with windows. I did the basic install, installed firefox and putty, and then let it go get its updates. Cool. Simple, and easy right? Wrong. Once all the updates had finally finished downloading and installing, it wanted to reboot. Fair enough, says I. So, after the reboot, it says, "hey by the way you have a bunch more critital updates". So I download and install them, then reboot. Then it says "Hey, there are still some critical updates". So you download, install, reboot. Then it tells you to install more updates, which you download, install, then reboot. Finally After hours of downloading, installing and reboot (I didn't baby-sit the thing. I went on to do other work, and checked back on it when I thought about it), it eventually said "you're up to date".
Incredible.
My IT dep’t is trying to talk me into moving from Win 7 to 8.1
I’m resisting with every fiber of my being.