Windows 10: Win 7 and XP are the biggest losers with Windows 10's rapid growth

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Over and above that, and as I said before: I have a customized Windows 7 UI and a customized Windows 8.1 UI, I want those customized UIs if I upgrade my machines to Windows 10!

IMHO, upgrades to Windows 10 would accelerate too!

P.S. Business opportunity for third party UI designers.

 

I thought that as well for XP die-hards. They could have visual style personalities for all of the old OS appearances (even bring back classic. Why not? It's still there underneath which has been proven)

However, you may remember "eatup" who was an XP fan, and he would NOT accept such a plan. To him, all of the Component Store/Modularized systems (Vista/7/8/10) compromise on gaming performance and throughput. He won't buy any of the touted security benefit of newer systems either. So he'll stay put on XP.

Oh well.
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The word I used before was 'skins'. Microsoft should offer a gallery of 'skins' to choose from, even emulate (not plain copy, of course) Google and Apple 'skins' and get converts not only from previous Windows OSs but also from other camps *Biggrin

 

Hi here

Horses are also the biggest losers since the invention of cheap cars.
Ships are also a lot slower than flying -- so what's new there either.

I'm not sure what your post is meant to say -- an older system will usually always be superceeded by a newer one.

Cheers
jimbo

 

So PC Master Race is cutting into w7? OEM's are finally being released just before the Holidays. Hmm tablet or crappy OEM laptop, or spend big bucks: surface, ipad, a kazzilion android options.

The OEM's should help out. But I do not personally see movement in the enterprise realm. And the tablet market is fierce. And there, people get comfortable and resist changing to a new OS.

 

Duplicate post (sorry *Sad )

 

But what's wrong with following the pace of decline of conventional systems (especially from the standpoint of following business trends). In the audio world, when CDs became established, I followed the trends of declining cassette and LP sales with great interest. Buying habits of cassettes for example didn't show nearly as much rapid decline for the first decade as vinyl.

So perhaps (as an example), someone might want to see if the free upgrade process to Windows 10 kills off the market share of Windows 7 faster than the remaining Windows XP user base. See what I mean? It's a valid observation.

 

According to Ed Bott, W7 has taken minimal "damage" to its user base.

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Of course....
And a lot of Government Agencies are going to be pleased when Windows 10 turns their hard drives raw or keeps rearranging desktops every time you turn the monitor off.

I love the fact that there are bugs that still exist since Windows 7 that are present in Windows 10.
Yes, businesses are ready to adopt 10 and get rid of what already works.
I know IT guys in the Government that refuse to leave 7 and go to 8 much less 10. And they are in charge of yea or nay when it comes to adoption of patches, drivers or newer OS's.