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Windows XP was (is) great. What is up with this headline?
A plug for Windoze 7.
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%.”
Can XP be loaded on to a new computer? Asking for a close personal friend.
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.
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.
I really quit caring about what OS I was on with Windows 8. Yes, it had a horrible UI, but I didn’t use it. Just like I don’t really use the UI in Win 10 (I do cad work there) nor on my notebook with Win11
If you are a home user there is no reason to upgrade until you get a new PC.
A quick switch means you delivered a hot mess last time. See Windows 8 or Windows Millennium. People RAN from those systems because they were horrible. Seven was a good system but not as backward compatible as XP. So people drifted away from it as they upgraded their systems. They had no reason to run from it but no compelling reason to keep it either. Windows Ten did about the same as Seven. Maybe slightly better and was not a pain to use.
Windows XP was also the last system that you could play legacy games and software on without having to do a bunch of tweaking.
Businesses who are on contract with Microsoft, have the latest business software and want all the security updates they can get are a different matter.
Still run Win7 on my desktop.
I loved windows 98. Used until I was forced to XP. Now forced to 10. It’s ok but doing a update and I lost my start menu. So I put it in tablet mode. Last time I did a update it lost the tablet mode. Apparently it happens to some but no fix from Microsoft. And the fix looks hard.. not going to windows 11..
XP was Microsoft's "Thriller" moment, it was the artistic achievement they could never surpass, regardless how many more albums they produced.
But that market penetration proved a problem, because unlike Apple, who created an entire ecosystem around their operating systems, Microsoft users grew up buying their add-on softwares from 3rd-party companies, which left M$ in the lurch. So once they sold a copy of XP to everyone in the world who wanted one, they had to come up with a scheme to reopen their access to all those XP users. Either that or go into the aluminum siding business.
So they sunsetted XP and replaced it with a piece of detritus called (pardon my French) Vista.
And that was when Redmond lost its mojo. Now a great many users have for be forced to step up to each new Windows version, which, after all, is how M$ earns its daily bread. And far fewer go willingly now than in the pre-Vista days.
If they could, and if XP and all the customary supporting applications were still being updated, it's a dead nuts certainty that a very significant portion of the planet's occupants would still be running 32-bit XP.
M$'s greatest source of heartburn today is that peak desktop PC was more than a decade ago, and that market continues to dwindle. And they've completely missed the boat on the handheld digital devices revolution. Spent billion$ in R&D with nothing to show for it but a long stream of red numbers on their P&L sheet. So they sat on the sideline with a sour look on their faces and watched Android (a Linux derivative) become the most widely used operating system on the planet.
First Hand Testimony:
Windows was provided automatically I suppose as a result of Office 365 and loaded painlessly when accepted. It did take awhile but it was no problem. And...... for the first time ever, my 79 year old wife acquired and loaded Windows 11 with out coming to me for help. Now that is a milestone worth recording.
In actual operation, Windows 11 is different in presentation but very much like Windows 10.
Windows 11 makes the interactive Microsoft mega world work extremely well. The world runs on Microsoft
Windows 7 still used by about 18% of pc users including me.
View Operating System Version Market Share
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide
Windows 7 is still running on at least 100 million PCs
It could be even more than 100 million
In reality, it could still be in use by more than 200 million devices worldwide.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics
I have a newer model running 11 and an older model running 10. The 11 model is much faster than the 10 model
I “upgraded” to windows 11, figuring it was inevitable, and now Photos doesn’t work, and I cannot find a workaround. There is still a “Photos” App but it sux. I am glad I didn’t install it on my wife’s desktop, or it might mean divorce. Sorry I installed it, and would like to go back. Windows 11 is definitely inferior to 10. I liked windows 7, and did not think 10 was much of an upgrade. (Obviously 8, and 9 really sux.)
And yeah, I was dragged kicking and screaming from XP, which was fine.
Still truckin’ with Win 7 Pro X64. Prolly will till the day I die.
Anybody know of an ink-jet printer that has drivers for Win 7? Trying to think ahead.