Comments on: Survey: XP Users Aren’t Upgrading to Windows 7

By: techwoo

techwoo — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:21:53 +0000

Oh! Thank for nice post about Survey: XP Users Aren't Upgrading to Windows 7. If you want share more about this topic, you can read it at http://forum.techwoo.com/#9477_survey_xp_users_arent_upgrading_to_windows

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:08:34 +0000

The story and all of these comments have genuinely got me confused a bit. What if I’m running an Athlon x2 @ 2.6GHz, 2GB DDR2-800, and Nvidia GTS250 on an XP sys. I’m using SATA2 everything and the mb supposedly is made for vista. Now I know that the gfx card isn’t DX11, but wouldn’t I be able to upgrade to Win7?

By: Kurtrix

Kurtrix — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:14:53 +0000

A) The fault dear Brutus is in not in our stars, but in Microsoft. I don’t think they could have made the “upgrade” process; XP- Win7 any harder.
B) As an engineer who has worked with “computers” since 1975. I’ve learned one thing. The average Joe/Jane doesn’t want to deal with pre-evaluating configurations, saving data, cleaning disks, resetting BIOS, traveling to Lords. They just want to flip in a disk, press go and restart the machine.
C) I agree, XP users should just buy a new PC w/ win7.
D) I’m not paying $ 0.000000000001 for upgrades to my XP machine. I’ll let it go extinct like the Dinosaur.
E) Last year bought a 24″ iMAC, this year a Macbook Pro ! I am migrating away from the “Dark Side”

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:07:48 +0000

What a lot of people have not noticed, is that if you look at the build numbers for XP, Vista, and Windows 7, they are all built on the NT platform. It appears that Vista was a mod to XP, and Windows 7 is still Vista with an upgrade. So where is this NEW operating system? It is just another patch, that quite frankly I found, IE still crashes on, even IE8. So there is no real reason to upgrade to 7, since XP is STILL the most stable Os since DOS 3.3…!!!!

By: Balwindersingh

Balwindersingh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:03:05 +0000

People must use windows xp more because windows xp is almost out of the road and will stop and windows xp will be a mith use windows xp, trust it

By: rl1856

rl1856 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:11:19 +0000

XP works and Vista didn’t. While 7 seems to be everything Vista was supposed to be and wasn’t it is still too early to commit to what is essentially an unproven OS. While our desktops are only 3 years old, they are not powerful enough to fully exploit all of the features of 7. Therefore to upgrade to 7, I would also have to upgrade to new computers. That said, I may be in the market for a new laptop, which means I will probably receive 7 as the pre-installed OS. But 7 is definately not the reason for a potential laptop purchase.

By: Mike Gray

Mike Gray — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:24:11 +0000

Hi,

I’ve been on the Beta and RC since the beginning. No question that I’ll move to the RTM before next March. I circumvented Vista (spit)and came directly from XP. ’7′ has matched XP for me and exceeded it but a shame that MS has made a balls up of the the upgrade process!

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:57:34 +0000

I am a XP holdout, having never willingly migrated to vista, although 2 years ago I purchased a laptop that had Vista on it and loaded it with xp in dual-boot to run an older (and expensive) CADD program. I love XPs rock solid mature virtues and the fact that it’s more stable than my friends Mac too.
I’m a computer tech and needed to know Vista and after using it I kinda liked it, but not enough to switch. So I kept my main workstation in XP… until Win7.
After studying the Win7′s features I decided to configure my workstation in a dual-boot XP/Win7 64 config (which is a snap).
The install was the easiest 35 minutes I’ve spent installing any OS and it works splendidly (ignore the Mac Ads). Finally, the 4GB memory limit is gone.
I still need XP for a few games and that CADD program, but for a power user Windows 7 is well worth considering.
2 weeks running, zero problems, zero crashes.

By: David Worthington

David Worthington — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:05:33 +0000

Great comments folks. Thank you.

By: JessicaD

JessicaD — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:22:55 +0000

Gedion,

You are correct in stating that there could be several application compatibility isses when migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. To get your questions answered on the most common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why changes were made along the way, compatibility technologies inside the OS and methods for getting incompatible applications to run on Windows 7, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/yfa2yyz

Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team