Microsoft may have finally turned a corner in its ongoing efforts to move users away from the aged Windows XP operating system.
While most market research firms show Windows XP as still controlling 33 percent (or higher) of the OS market, Microsoft's own figures have that number lower, at about 27 percent.
According to Paul Thurrott, this means there are still 405 million XP users ... [ read the full article ]
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I run a small business and my 15 computers are still using XP. For those of us who actually have to consider the cost of things, upgrading all of the computer hardware, purchasing new OS licenses, buying new software just so they will work with the new OS, retraining all of the staff, etc, is very costly. So if we can still do what we need to do to run the business efficiently, why spend the money to upgrade?
We don't need the "latest and greatest" OS or hardware to keep the business running. Upgrading everything and retraining the staff will not create a higher profit margin, actually the opposite. So for people who actually have to make a living, I will wait until XP can no longer be used before upgrading.
