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.
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
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’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
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.
I have my laptop with 8.1 setup to look, and behave like Win 7, but the touchscreen still works when I need it.
When I got 3.1, everyone had Win95.
When I got Win95, everyone was moving to Win XP.
Reckon I'll stick with Win7 for a while--it's a lot less work than 3.1 or 95 ever was... :)
The only problem with Windows 8 is lack of a start button. Microsoft made a huge mistake by not making it an easy to turn ON-OFF option for desktop/laptop users. This was pure ineptitude. This was not fully corrected in 8.1 either.
This mistake provided an opening for>>>>>>
All the homoerotic -Apple fanbois piled on their hate and disdain and smug superiority over this. Apple fanbois lead this charge. And the sheeple believed it and lapped it up in a conformist frenzy.
My own solution was to download and install “Start 8” which installs this all important start button which will be returned in Windows 10
Once I got used to it. Windows 8.1 is fine.
Well, in the past 6 months I’ve purchased a Win8 Dell box and Win7 software to upgrade my old XP box. I use the Win7 box most of the time,, and my kid likes the Win8 since he doenst know any better..
(So...Microsoft, you thought it was a good idea to move and hide the power switch? Seriously??)
Eventually I gave that new Dell Win 8 computer to my sister and bought a home brewed machine with Win 7 from a local computer shop instead.
They can force me to buy Win 8 if I don't have a choice, but not if I do.