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66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP
An anonymous reader writes "Almost one year after the introduction of Windows 7 it appears that the hype surrounding it has faded. The overall market share of Windows has turned into a slight decline again. Windows 7 is gaining share, but cannot keep pace with the loss of Windows XP and Vista. Especially Windows XP users seem to be happy with what they have and appear to be rather resistant to Microsoft's pitches that it is time to upgrade to Windows 7."
Would the brand new PC from a big box store include the good motherboard and the i5 or i7 CPU?
No, but it does include a built-in keyboard, trackpad, and screen, and it folds to fit in your bag.
I think it is because vista/7 do not really offer any compelling features. Mostly just eye candy. Not worth the expense, or bother.
You took way too many words to say what can be translated as "I really dont know what I'm talking about, not one bit, but just the same I've formed an opinion that the market obeys MS's technical standards and will write half a page of guff to ignore the pink elephant in the room".
Whatever reasons MS used to make DX10 Vista only, it backfired because 3 and a bit years later most people are still using DX9c. This does mean MS screwed up with DX10, if they made it too complex for XP on purpose or accident it was still a failure, this does mean DX10 is broken as the market wants to stick with XP and no game dev is willing to drop XP support. The market has decided that DX10 is a failure because everyone is still coding for DX9, when DX 9 was released, for how many years did they keep coding for DX 8 (HINT: everyone pretty much dropped it immediately).
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Yes, 7 is more secure. Nearly all the vulnerabilities that have been discovered in windows over the last year been mitigated by Windows 7's default configuration (that is, they may still affect 7, but because of things like UAC, DEP, etc.. they can't be exploited or not as easily as on XP).
Windows 7 provides a whole metric shit ton of other features that an average user will find beneficial. Theming, gadgets, Aero Snap, Jump Lists, Live Previews (works great for finding the right tab in your browser and allows you to jump right to it), and search.
Seriously, The only people I know that don't love 7 and refuse to go back to XP are people that are too stubborn to learn anything new.
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