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2011-01-09, 6:49 AM #41

JLee

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Originally posted by Brian:

And by "not everyone" you mean ~60% of computer users.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/364000/windows-7-tops-20-market-share

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Long-standing favourite XP still has hold of 56.72% computers, however.

Which would mean...not everyone. Am I missing something here? :confused:

woot!

2011-01-09, 6:19 PM #42

Brian

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To me when you wrote "not everyone" it seemed like you meant something like, "well, there are still a few holdouts who are on xp." Perhaps I read more into that than you intended.

2011-01-09, 7:34 PM #43

Tibby

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That number is slipping amazingly fast, considering 7 is only a year old it really is getting rapid adoption. Once SP1 is out and businesses start switching there will be an extremely fast decline in XP usage.

2011-01-09, 8:18 PM #44

zanardi

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Windows XP, the new Windows 98

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2011-01-09, 8:27 PM #45

Zloc_Vergo

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I was on 98 until 2006, when I did a brief stint in 2000 and then got XP with my new, current computer. Ugh. I can't wait to build a new computer before I go to school in the fall.

I had a blog. It sucked.

2011-01-09, 10:26 PM #46

Tibby

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Same, I used 98 untill 2006 when I skipped straight to Vista and a dual core.
**** that felt amazing, I could multitask. I was also one of few people who liked Vista.

2011-01-09, 10:56 PM #47

Emon

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Almost all of the problems in Vista were perceptual. A few bugs and some minor usability problems but other than that pretty much okay. The integrated search was fantastic.

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2011-01-09, 11:02 PM #48

Tibby

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As far as I can tell it was much a problem of 3rd parties ****ting out driver support whenever they felt like it. And a lot of tech sites circlejerked about how terrible it was for that reason, which created a bizarre firestorm of anti-vista. Oh and 3 or 4 programs that had ****ty designs didn't work properly, and 64 bit can't use 16 bit installers. This pissed people off who still used crappy shareware windows 3.11 programs.

2011-01-10, 4:22 AM #49

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MS decided that backwards compatibility would no longer be their most important feature.

2011-01-10, 5:33 AM #50

Chewbubba

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Originally posted by Tibby:

This pissed people off who still used crappy shareware windows 3.11 programs.

Yes, those were the only people in that situation... :rolleyes:

Geez, what's up with you and blanket generalizations lately.

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2011-01-10, 8:07 AM #51

Brian

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My wife has vista and I don't see any major difference between it and windows 7.

2011-01-10, 8:24 AM #52

Obi_Kwiet

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Originally posted by JLee:

Which would mean...not everyone. Am I missing something here? :confused:

Because everyone missed it, among people where DX10 support would actually matter, XP use is only about 20%.