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XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance

Posted by kdawson on from the light-at-the-end-of-the-long-tunnel-that-is-vista dept.

Harry writes "PC World and Technologizer conducted a survey of 5,000 people who use Windows XP as their primary operating system. Many have no plans to leave it, and 80% will be unhappy when Microsoft completely discontinues it. And attitudes towards Vista remain extremely negative. But a majority of those who know something about Windows 7 have a positive reaction. More important, 70 percent of respondents who have used Windows 7 say they like it, which is a sign that Windows 7 stands a chance of being what Vista never was: an upgrade good enough to convince most XP users to switch."

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  1. Re:Windows 7? by The+Orange+Mage · · Score: 5, Informative

    They arrived at 7 for the version number in this way: Windows 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 lines are self-explanatory. The NT4 and Windows 95/98/ME family were all part of the 4.x version of Windows. Win2000 and XP were 5.x, so naturally Vista was 6.0. That leaves us at 7 for the new Windows.

  2. Re:Try Windows 7? by bruce_the_loon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here you go. Found it at the bottom of the RSAT forum page from MS. RSAT for Windows 7

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  3. Re:Try Windows 7? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 4, Informative

    Speak for yourself. For me, this is Year 5 of the Linux Desktop, and my "seething" at Microsoft has long since cooled to "very occasionally annoyed when forced to look at someone's Windows box".

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