Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP

colinneagle sends this excerpt from Network World: "Google announced last Friday that, in accordance to its policy of supporting a current browser and the immediate predecessor, its Google Apps productivity suite would drop support for Internet Explorer 8 once Windows 8 ships. Neither IE9 nor IE10 are available on XP. Adobe announced on the Photoshop Blog that the next version of Photoshop CS would support only Windows 7 and 8. The current version, CS6, is available for XP but, amusingly, not for Vista, which was its successor. This is a much-needed boost for Microsoft, which anxiously wants to put XP out to pasture after 11 years. Despite efforts to get rid of the old OS, XP still holds 43% of the market, according to the latest monthly data from Net Applications. Among Steam customers, Windows 7 has 70% market share, covering both 32-bit and 64-bit, while XP has 12%. That confirms what has been known for some time: consumers are adopting Windows 7 at a much faster rate than businesses. I know there is a whole economic argument to be had, and these numbers are not precise or scientific, but if XP really can be found in only 12% of households but 43% of businesses (or something close to that), then it really is time for the enterprise to stop dragging its tail."

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Re:Kill XP?

[FireFury03]

avaya i think it was called

Oh dear god, there are people who still sell this obsolete piece of shit (complete with obsolete H323 phones... seriously, why is anyone using anything other than SIP these days?)... some of my customers recently had them installed. Worst thing is the installers, who claim to be "VoIP experts" pretty much univerally don't understand the first thing about "IP" (they look at you completely stumped when they discover they are working with a routed IP network instead of a site-wide broadcast network).