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Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50%
An anonymous reader writes "At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say that Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than half of all Internet users."
Your church should stick with XP, or switch to Linux. Windows 7 is a horrible operating system, far worse than XP. Besides being incredibly buggy, its design decisions are ridiculous. Windows Explorer is barely functional, Windows search is far worse (I have to use a separate program for this), and just about anything else that worked halfway decently in XP has been tinkered with to worsen it. It's like Microsoft tried to webify the Windows interface, but did it badly. Everything is Javascript or some type of internal scripting. You used to be able to move your mouse without selecting and activating things, but now with the OS's "webification" simply mousing over items opens them. And it's hard to tweak out any of this poor behavior using the registry or gpedit or whatever it's called, if it lets you modify it at all. Roy Schestowitz has been calling Windows 7 "Vista 7," and I thought he was just joking. But now that I have been forced to use it at workm, I find it is the worst Microsoft OS ever, worse than ME or Bob or even 3.0 or 3.1. What a buggy, badly designed mess. The fact that it got good press leads me to believe it was subject to one of the most successful, butdishonest,