Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50% 425
An anonymous reader writes "At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say that Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than half of all Internet users."
Re:just sayin' (Score:2, Informative)
The logical path is to stick with XP.
I don't think you know what a path is.
TechSoup (Score:5, Informative)
We have new hardware to install in my church's office. The old computers run XP, purchased as charity licenses. The new hardware came with Vista and I was hoping we could install Windows 7 instead. As a result, we're going to be shoe-horning XP back onto the *new* machines, and I'll be installing an Ubuntu dual-boot on them to see if there's any way to get the staff to consider moving to it. Go-go-gadget greed, Microsoft!
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Re:just sayin' (Score:3, Informative)
I agree, absolutely.
All of my digital audio workstations that I use for music production still run XP SP3. Though I might see how my DAW apps run in Win7 just because I have access to a lot more RAM. The 64 bit versions that run in XP 64 are a little goofy still, but I hear the 64 bit versions run great in Windows 7.