Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP

**ctal** · 11-15-2009, 08:13 PM

Windows 7 is surging. After an insanely popular beta cycle, Microsoft's latest and greatest has exploded out of the gate, grabbing more than 4 percent of the real-world usage base as tracked by InfoWorld's Windows Pulse service -- after only a few weeks of general availability.... There seems to be a direct correlation between Windows 7 adoption and Vista abandonment, with the latter losing a percentage point and the former gaining the same in a little over a week... with XP holding steady at just under 64 percent.

Windows 7 is quickly displacing Vista -- but not XP | Windows - InfoWorld

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XJ. · 11-16-2009, 10:57 AM

Interesting article. Good to know that Win7 takes advantage of multi core/threaded cpus than it's predecessors.

Thanks ctal

maraud · 11-16-2009, 11:31 AM

Almost everyone using XP are waiting for M$ to reduce the price to a reasonable amount before buying.

rjs735 · 11-16-2009, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by maraud

Almost everyone using XP are waiting for M$ to reduce the price to a reasonable amount before buying.

Me too.

MS is offering 50% discount for a copy of Win7 when you buy a new pc. I know I have more than 3 pcs. Why not a discount for more than 3 pcs.

*johnrr6* · 11-17-2009, 06:36 AM

Family Pack Upgrade...

$150 for three upgrade licenses and includes the media for 32 or 64 bit.

$50 a computer seems fairly resonable to me.

It's Win 7 Home Premium.

Get Windows 7 for the whole family for $149.99.

They are only going to offer this price for a while and I see amazon has already jumped their price for it way up.

I got one from Costco the other day and used one of the licenses to upgrade my wife's machine----worked like a charm.....

maraud · 11-17-2009, 12:03 PM

John,
The 3 computer deal works well if you have 3 computers but if you only have one computer then M$ does not have a deal for you and I suppose that there are a lot of users who do not have multiple computers and thats why M$ is not getting many XP sales. If they do anything it will not occur until after the holiday season.

*johnrr6* · 11-17-2009, 01:27 PM

True----makes sense.....

XJ. · 11-18-2009, 01:47 AM

Yeah, allot of people were burned by the cost of Vista. I suspect that allot of Win7's sales have been do to new computer purchases by consumers - where the OS is 'free' (i.e., included in the price).

There remain many consumers who see no need to upgrade and corporate adoption is slow at this point. Many companies have new guidelines for what is considered critical infrastructure vs that which is beneficial, but not critical; and cost figures into to that to some degree.

***Sylar*** · 11-18-2009, 02:03 PM

Lets wait till november market share of ms os figures are out in about december before we pass judgment.

XJ. · 11-18-2009, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Sylar

Lets wait till november market share of ms os figures are out in about december before we pass judgment.

Good point, I suspect that corporations might start ramping up Win7 licensing buys under the 'use it or lose it' theory of departmental economics. Then again, they may wait because of the economy and wanting to see how other corporations make out with their Win7 roll outs.

traveler · 11-29-2009, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by XJ.

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There remain many consumers who see no need to upgrade and corporate adoption is slow at this point. Many companies have new guidelines for what is considered critical infrastructure vs that which is beneficial, but not critical; and cost figures into to that to some degree.

Some degree???

In this economy?

Whatever OS is currently installed, I'm sure it runs the email, the web pages, the typing apps, and all the financial apps the company needs.

What is there in win7 that a corporation really needs? DX11? The new media system? I haven't seen anything really needed in an OS since win2000. XP took some things away that I used.

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XJ. · 11-29-2009, 07:05 PM

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What is there in win7 that a corporation really needs? DX11? The new media system? I haven't seen anything really needed in an OS since win2000. XP took some things away that I used.

Most of the advantage on the corporate side is better integration with newer servers. Better deployment tools, better manageability, etc. (or so I'm told).

ChAsM · 11-29-2009, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by XJ.

Most of the advantage on the corporate side is better integration with newer servers. Better deployment tools, better manageability, etc. (or so I'm told).

XP is already very corporate friendly, though. And, it works well; and is proven.

Don't get me wrong. As a geek, I LOVE Win7. But, I'll wait until at least SP2 before I "sell" it to my org.

rjs735 · 11-30-2009, 09:16 PM

Win 7 is better than Vista. No bloat. But on the same hardware that has been configured for XP. XP runs better than win7. To run win7 at the same performance level you need a better video card ( more memory and faster). Need more system memory . If you have single core less than 3.0GHz it maybe a little lazy.

XJ. · 12-01-2009, 01:21 AM

Win7 still seems bloated to me - start up memory usage (w/internet security etc.) seems to be approximately the same.

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XJ. We need more folders!! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NH, USA Posts: 6,519	Re: Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP Interesting article. Good to know that Win7 takes advantage of multi core/threaded cpus than it's predecessors. Thanks ctal __________________ Down for the summer.
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maraud Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 363	Re: Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP John, The 3 computer deal works well if you have 3 computers but if you only have one computer then M$ does not have a deal for you and I suppose that there are a lot of users who do not have multiple computers and thats why M$ is not getting many XP sales. If they do anything it will not occur until after the holiday season.
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johnrr6 Lucky Amateur Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 3,094	Re: Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP True----makes sense..... __________________ i7 920 @ 3.5 Ghz Win 7 Ultimate Edition 64 Bit Asus P6T Deluxe, BIOS 1904 Vigor Monsoon III LT 6 x 2 Gig Mushkin PC12800 ATI HD 4870 X2 2 x 500 Gig Seagate SATA II HDs in RAID 0 Samsung SATA TruDirect DVD Burner w/Lightscribe Seasonic 600W PSU Creative X-Fi Titanium sound Lian Li AO5B Black Case Hauppage 1800 TV Card
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XJ. We need more folders!! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NH, USA Posts: 6,519	Re: Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP Yeah, allot of people were burned by the cost of Vista. I suspect that allot of Win7's sales have been do to new computer purchases by consumers - where the OS is 'free' (i.e., included in the price). There remain many consumers who see no need to upgrade and corporate adoption is slow at this point. Many companies have new guidelines for what is considered critical infrastructure vs that which is beneficial, but not critical; and cost figures into to that to some degree. __________________ Down for the summer. Last edited by XJ.; 11-18-2009 at 05:15 PM..
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rjs735 Virus? What I am not sick Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Central Florida Posts: 2,001	Re: Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP Win 7 is better than Vista. No bloat. But on the same hardware that has been configured for XP. XP runs better than win7. To run win7 at the same performance level you need a better video card ( more memory and faster). Need more system memory . If you have single core less than 3.0GHz it maybe a little lazy. __________________ Giga ga-ep45-ud3p 2.8 E8400 4mb Ram WDC 500Gb XP pro Win7 32 Win7 64 Asus P4S8x 2.0 Ghz Celeron Ram 512MB WDC 80GB HD SATA WDC 80GB SATA Memorex DUAL DVD/RW Win98SE/XP pro Asus P2b-F Cel 450 Ram 256MB W98 SE Optorite CDRW WD 40GB Asrock P4combo P4 346 Xp Pro Sp 3 SATA HD SATA DVD/RW Foxconn 925EX 550 XP Media SP2 Sata HD Sata DVD/RW Foxconn 925EX 550 Xp SP2 Asrock 775Dual 550 Xp pro SP2 IBM T23 1.3hz RAM 512MB XP pro SP2 All systems are networked Konica Minolta Color Laser Samsung clp-315 Color laser Dlink 655 Dlink G650 Wireless Dlink DNS-323 1TB NAS
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XJ. We need more folders!! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NH, USA Posts: 6,519	Re: Windows 7 Is Quickly Displacing Vista -- But Not XP Win7 still seems bloated to me - start up memory usage (w/internet security etc.) seems to be approximately the same. __________________ Down for the summer.
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