Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
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Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#2The lack of change does not have much to do with Vista. The main reason is that businesses are slow to make changes. Once they are comfortable they will not want to touch anything, specially if that means coming out of pocket. Now that being said, yes, Vista sucks.
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#3As I'm probably overly fond of pointing out, Vista is what caused me to switch to Linux.
I know the businesses I work with have no interest in Vista, and probably won't switch to Windows 7, either -- at least not anytime soon.
I'm advising all those who can to go to thin clients. That is actually about 90% of the business users who can easily use thin clients. They're often just as fast, far more secure, and so much easier to administer.
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#4As I'm probably overly fond of pointing out, Vista is what caused me to switch to Linux. I know the businesses I work with have no interest in Vista, and probably won't switch to Windows 7, either -- at least not anytime soon. I'm advising all those who can to go to thin clients. That is actually about 90% of the business users who can easily use thin clients. They're often just as fast, far more secure, and so much…
What distro do you use? What apps and desktop?
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#5Windows XP is actually a very good product so why switch?
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#6We went to 'anything but Vista'. Which mostly meant a mix of XP and Xubuntu. We've probably saved between £1-2,000 per host that would've otherwise been upgraded and extended the refresh cycle by a year to accomodate Windows 7 and Core i7 when it comes out and becomes cheap enough later this year.
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#7Windows XP is actually a very good product so why switch?
In Redmond, Windows Current has generally been regarded as the biggest competitor to Windows Next, and there comes a point where people won't pay $hundreds for another dialog box prepended on the workflow for changing your IP address.
You'd think that Embrace, Extend, Sell would be a better mantra than Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but I guess that's why I'm not a Windows product manager.
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#8As I'm probably overly fond of pointing out, Vista is what caused me to switch to Linux. I know the businesses I work with have no interest in Vista, and probably won't switch to Windows 7, either -- at least not anytime soon. I'm advising all those who can to go to thin clients. That is actually about 90% of the business users who can easily use thin clients. They're often just as fast, far more secure, and so much…
What distro do you use? What apps and desktop?
I use Ubuntu right now. It has the best support forums and frequent updates, and is the best distro I've used over the years despite some glaring bugs.
The most common apps I use are Firefox, gedit, Audacious, the shell, Brasero, VMWare (for testing Exchange setups in Windows), AbiWord, GIMP, Asunder, VLC and Pidgin.
I started out on Red Hat 5.0 (not RHEL) in the late 90s. Used it full-time for about a year, then switched to BeOS and dual-booting that with Windows. Over the years, I've also used Caldera, Corel Linux, Mandrake (before it was Mandriva), SUSE and some others I am sure I'm forgetting.
My desktop is Gnome, though it's not nearly as customizable as I'd like (used to be, though, before the developers removed it all). I don't care for KDE that much, though.
I'm going to try Fedora Core 11 when it comes out, but will probably stick with Ubuntu, I'm guessing.
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What distro do you use? What apps and desktop?
I use Ubuntu right now. It has the best support forums and frequent updates, and is the best distro I've used over the years despite some glaring bugs. The most common apps I use are Firefox, gedit, Audacious, the shell, Brasero, VMWare (for testing Exchange setups in Windows), AbiWord, GIMP, Asunder, VLC and Pidgin. I started out on Red Hat 5.0 (not RHEL) in the late 90s. Used it full-time for about a year, then swi…
Thanks. I've switched plenty of distros (like most Linux users I guess). For now, I'm sticking with Debian. I find it quite fast and lean with xfce.
One thing that's frustrated me in the past is that after having been a Windows users for years, I suddenly tried completely switching to Linux without knowing much about the commands and file structure.
I still struggle with app updates and dependencies but I'm trying to switch slowly, one task at a time from XP to Debian.
Do you recommend any books or good manuals? I know I can find loads if I just google it, but that's also been my problem. There's way too much info and it's too annoying to look for one tiny thing in that mass of text.
Thanks for your help.
Re: Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP
#10I believe this is a case of self-confirmation bias.
Checking for similar articles from 2003, around 2 years after the launch of XP, I found this gem: "Windows XP, the most current version of Windows, was found on just 6.6 percent of the [business] machines" (http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39161686,0...).