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Majority of Enterprise Customers Finally 'Migrating Away From Windows XP'

Posted by Soulskill on from the except-those-who-can't-stand-to-give-up-IE6 dept.

New submitter TinTops writes "Speaking in a keynote at Intel's Developer Forum, Microsoft's vice president of marketing, Tami Reller, said the firm has 'now seen about three quarters of Windows enterprises moving to modern desktops' from Windows XP, with the last leg of Windows XP migrations being spurred by the imminent availability of Windows 8.1. However, Reller did not offer a breakdown of the enterprise uptake of Windows 8 compared to Windows 7, both of which are counted by Microsoft as modern desktops."

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  1. Migration by puddingebola · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they are migrating to Canada. I hear that it is a nice country.

    1. Re:Migration by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe they are migrating to Canada. I hear that it is a nice country.

      Well, two from the Enterprise came to the US from Canada (Kirk & Scotty) The Ambassador Bridge goes two ways, eh!

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  2. Re:How close to 100% is the Windows 7 percentage? by msobkow · · Score: 4, Funny

    A real number? On Slashdot?

    Let me guess: You actually read the article, too.

    But I've not run into a single Windows 8 desktop at any business site I've ever worked for or visited, so I suspect your number is lowballing it.

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  3. Re:Windows 7... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mine is tastefully retrograded to the XP UI theme,

    "Tasteful" and "XP UI" have, heretofore, never been seen as linked concepts. Typically, the comments are more along the line of 'my eyes bleed' and 'Turn it off!!!".

    I do not want to see what your room looks like.

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  4. Re:How close to 100% is the Windows 7 percentage? by msobkow · · Score: 4, Funny

    *rolls eyes* Why, yes, Office is an Operating System.

    Just like Emacs is. :P

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  5. Re:Yeah, that's what XP holdouts were waiting for by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you're completely leapfrogging over Vista. How reckless :-)

  6. Re: How close to 100% is the Windows 7 percentage by jd2112 · · Score: 3, Funny

    you must really hate him.

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