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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. Re:Windows XP?? by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Informative

    people still use Windows XP? It is 2013! Don't tell me they are still running Pentium 3 computers at 900 MHz. My university uses Windows 8 and Dual Core processers at 2.6 GHz. Just saying.

    You should try running XP on a recent system sometime; it's very zippy, and with all the patches applied, quite stable.

    Plus, it virtualizes well with a low memory footprint.

  2. Re:Windows 7... by mrscorpio · · Score: 5, Informative

    He probably means the "classic" theme, which is really the Win2k theme.