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Posted on 04/17/2022 10:55:03 AM PDT by dayglored
[Dayglored note: This thread is not trolling, though the headline might seem that way. It's about a survey of BUSINESS NETWORKS by LanSweeper (https://www.lansweeper.com). The takeup of Win11 in businesses is glacially slow, while home users are starting to use it much more, or are forced to use it.]
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The Slashdot page posted here links to a story on PC Magazine. Sadly, FreeRepublic is not permitted to post PC Magazine content, so none appears here.
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The LanSweeper survey found the following:
Number of Windows devices scanned: 10,000,000Here is the SlashDot article
Date of scanning: "this month"
Devices w/ Win10 installed: 80.34%
Devices w/ WinXP installed: 1.71%
Devices w/ Win11 installed: 1.44%
(Excerpt) Read more at tech.slashdot.org ...
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Windows XP was (is) great. What is up with this headline?
A plug for Windoze 7.
Windows 7 in business is around 4.7%, beating both Win11 and WinXP by a substantial margin, but still vastly less than Win10.
It just reflects the fact that a lot of businesses would rather stick with what works (WinXP) even if it's unsupported and wildly insecure.
A lot of professional offices and production outfits are still using WinXP because their business-critical application and software was never updated and released for later versions of Windows.
A huge percentage of existing PC’s won’t take 11. It wouldn’t install on my mothers 3 year old Dell for instance. It was not a bottom of the line PC.
“It’s also important to note that other surveys have found much higher Windows 11 adoption numbers. Last month, the app advertising platform AdDuplex found Windows 11 usage was at 19.4%, although this represented a mere 0.1% growth from the previous month. Meanwhile, the Steam hardware survey from Valve estimates Windows 11 usage has reached 16.8%.”
“It just reflects the fact that a lot of businesses would rather stick with what works (WinXP) even if it’s unsupported and wildly insecure.”
LOL! Almost NONE are sticking with XP!
Can XP be loaded on to a new computer? Asking for a close personal friend.
” It wouldn’t install on my mothers 3 year old Dell for instance. It was not a bottom of the line PC.”
Which model?
Using Windows 11 now for six weeks and I don’t have a problem with it, in fact it seems to be faster than 10 especially at boot.
I have a I5 5th generation i think, 8gig of RAM and a GTX960 on my desktop and microsoft says my pc is too old for win 11.
i gave it a chance...f ‘em.
Still running XP, but some web sites are freezing me out because of it. Notably Walmart and Aetna’s medical insurance. Their loss. I just buy more from Amazon, and make Aetna’s phone support people work harder.
It is one of the all in one’s. It passed the TPM test and minimum memory but it failed something else l forget what. MCSFT will need to issue some kind of patch for this l think.
Yes, I thought Windows XP was the most reasonably stable iteration of Windows up to that point, and popular because of it.
I have I7 3.3 ghz, 12 gb of memory, 1050ti GPU and it would not load on it either, so ya F-em.
In healthcare, there still exist a number of web based applications which make it difficult to migrate. The situation kind of bites. They are legacy specialty applications, often used by ancillary systems where migrating to the new version is either not possible (Vendor hasn’t written it) or they are charging a boatload of money to transition.
Should I just keep Windows 10 for now?
Having experienced msdos through win 11, I can't say whether it's better or
worse than any previous version.
After weeding through settings to streamline, win 11 works well enough.
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