Windows 10: More Users Move to Windows XP Ahead of Windows 10 Launch

I can't claim responsibility for the extra XP's as in the last year, I have replaced one with 7, retired two, and the last one I,m keeping for old times sake. I have given the only full retail copy to a friend for a spare as he has a legacy program for his cnc mill which doesn't want to run on later Windows.

 

I think because of xp, that's why Microsoft might have decided to make 10 free for 7 and 8.1 users. Xp has to die and should already be dead. It's a skeleton in a coffin these days compared to the rest of computing.

Is Windows 10 going to be delivered through Windows Update though? I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

 

I'd imagine that would be the easiest way for average users. I hope they offer an ISO as I like to clean install, but the update seems logical. Also has there been any word for free updates to those on XP or Vista? Seems the word free, may open the door for those users whose only reason for not getting a new OS is based on pure cost alone.

I think there are lot of people that are what I call "browser based" in the sense that the OS really woulndt matter what type it was, be it windows or Linux or OSX, just as long as there web browser of choice worked, as 99% of what they use a computer for is internet based. They don't see the need to update because their browser still works on XP, so "what's the point? I'm not spending money if this already works" (not too mention they don't understand the risk, but that's another topic) however, toss the word free and show off some of the on-line features and I'll bet many of the browser based folks would be willing to change.

 

agree, I have win10 on a 8 year old Dell with Centrino Duo cpu,3gig ram ,and even runs quite nice on a Acer1 with atom cpu ,with 2gig ram ,as for device drivers ,the dell is missing 2 in device manager ,like a card reader and or Bluetooth device

 

XP POS OS is still supported for several years yet...... So, what's your point. . .*Huh Because Superfly thought it might've been XP running on the POS computer he saw, whereas he probably was seeing POS Ready 2009 running instead (which is still based on the Windows XP codebase)

Additionally, the POS build is indeed supported until 2019, so it was applicable here in response to Superfly's comment.

 

I have every windows since 3.1, I say XP is the most logical OS microsoft has made.

 

I always wonder at these sorts of discussions. It's very simple really. Most people are not interested in the OS or upgrading. Most people need to do certain tasks with their computers and nothing else. For them a PC is not a toy and not a hobby, it's a tool, just like a hammer. How often do you "upgrade" your hammer? Most people would answer - when it breaks. Same with computers.

Why bother upgrading? Personally I buy new hardware when I have a new task for which the old hardware is insufficient. Or the old machine dies. Unless I buy new hardware, I don't see any reason to upgrade the OS or any of the software. For some software you need to pay a lot of money every year with small incremental improvements in the updated versions. My employer pays for those, I would never do it with my personal money. Same with the OS.

So, I really don't see why should anyone be surprised that people still use XP. I also use XP - I have an old laptop which I use for some specific purpose. It runs XP and I don't plan on "upgrading" it. My main machine runs 7 and so far I don't see any reason to change to anything else, certainly not to 8, but even 10 is not that impressive so far.

 

I give you an example. I have an Android phone. Recently Google came up with the new version of the OS (Android 5). All the forums were buzzing with excitement. Recently the update came to my phone. The result - the phone is slower, battery life is much worse, some apps are misbehaving. I wish I did not press that"update" button. Because with phones it's very hard to go back - the manufacturers do not want to you to.

 

Why would you move to an aging, insecure OS that's not optimised for modern hardware.

 

Well that is because Android is buttcakes. My BlackBerry Z30 Has improved by leaps and bounds with the upgrade to 10.2 and to 10.3.1. Performance is faster, battery life is longer, and there are more and more features and little tweaks.

 

I'd imagine that would be the easiest way for average users. I hope they offer an ISO as I like to clean install, but the update seems logical. Also has there been any word for free updates to those on XP or Vista? Seems the word free, may open the door for those users whose only reason for not getting a new OS is based on pure cost alone.

I think there are lot of people that are what I call "browser based" in the sense that the OS really woulndt matter what type it was, be it windows or Linux or OSX, just as long as there web browser of choice worked, as 99% of what they use a computer for is internet based. They don't see the need to update because their browser still works on XP, so "what's the point? I'm not spending money if this already works" (not too mention they don't understand the risk, but that's another topic) however, toss the word free and show off some of the on-line features and I'll bet many of the browser based folks would be willing to change. Xp nor vista won't get the free update because Xp for starters is going to be 14 years old this year and the thinking of Microsoft is probably the fact that you should have already gotten your act together and upgraded to a later version. Vista won't get it because obviously, it was a train wreck from the get-go and if you were running vista, you knew that. Their thinking is that by Windows 7, you'd have gotten your act together and not be running a train wreck. Vista I can see that being a legit reason, Xp because of vista, might not be that solid.

You underscored the necessity of Windows 8 to the crisply designed live tile. That is what the Windows PC, even macs for that matter, have basically come to; a mix of internet based usage with some local file based usage but the internet based stuff takes dominance. This is actually something I've found doing deployments of Windows 8 and explaining to people why things changed the way they did and the first question I always ask is, "What is the first thing you do when you turn on your PC, or your first program?" Literally, about 9 times out of 10 is starting an internet browser with 1 out 10 times being something that isn't a browser. From there it's either email or facetubes or something just internet based. That's nice and all, but having a singular window open with eight or more tabs open isn't the most effective way of doing things. An operating system built upon the concept of programs first and files first doesn't do internet first that well, hence why Windows 8 happened the way it did. It took your different browser tabs (or at least attempted) and plopped them into a little window on your Start Screen that is alive and feeds you updated bits information at a glance. It's an operating system that's now built on internet first principles. Windows 10 is making it now internet first, programs first, files first.

That's really what needs to be instilled.

 

Instead of speculating on the why's or why not's, why doesn't someone actually do some research and have some polling based on the general PC user demographic to ACTUALLY see why people don't upgrade?

I'll speculate a reason why not, they don't even know there's newer stuff out there. I remembered just now about how a few years ago, I was helping some folks out with their desktop that had Xp that ran like an old dog, even the BIOS took all week just to do the POSTing, geez. I mentioned that Windows 7 would probably run more smoothly on their system and they responded with, "What's Windows 7? Isn't Xp the thing these days?"
That was definitely a moment of disbelief... *What

 

and a large number of computer users today ,have no idea there is a win10 on its way ,and a good number of them are still using winxp

 

I've been under the impression that the majority of PC/Computer users just stick with the OS that comes with the PC/Computer. The thought of upgrading to a new OS just never enters their minds.

Just my 2c
Jeff

 

not only dose it not enter there minds ,for the most don't even it possible .I see this everyday.

topics like this allways remind me of the day a few years back when a lady came to the computer repair shop to pick up he computer ,and the tech took her out back to show her how well her computer was working now ,
took 10 minutes or more to convince her that she didn't need to take home the shop's monitor as all her info was on the tower and not the monitor