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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. How Wonderfully slashdot by Tomsk70 · · Score: 1, Troll

    In July, an article was posted claiming that no businesses are going to be moving to Windows 7.

    I posted a comment pointing out that businesses have said this about the next version of Windows since 95 (excluding ME and Vista), complained that this wasn't really news and that Slashdot should stop recycling tabloid fodder. I got marked down for being a troll (my guess is that they're still trying to make Linux look like a desktop contender - good luck with that).

    Oh, but look - here's an article point out that users *are* going to be moving to Windows 7. Just fancy that. Never saw that one coming.

    No doubt Slashdot will moderate me down as a troll again - which is why I'm going to point out that I was trollified for saying so on every article they post about Windows 7 selling well - just so people are aware that on this site 'Troll' appears to mean 'non-Linux user' or 'someone that doesn't agree with us'.

    And to think some claim that it's *microsoft* that are facists....