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XP May Be "Good Enough" for Many
Submitted by threew on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 7:20am.
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A brief article in CIO caught my attention yesterday especially in light of the recent "good enough" conversation here on door64.
After re-visiting the article today, I think Michael Scalisi does a nice job in "Five Reasons Some XP Users Should Hold Off on Windows 7" of making the "good enough" case for XP... at least for some people.
Microsoft created a problem for itself with Vista, prompting many users to stick with Windows XP. People have been using XP for seven years now, and regardless of how good Windows 7 might be, many might have a hard time leaving their security blanket behind. I've been using Windows 7 for months now, and I really like it, but there a number of reasons why XP users might want to stay put a little longer.
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XP works fine for me. Why change if it works? I didn't get to SP2 until about a year ago.
I haven't touched Vista. (Well, that's not quite true. I installed it, tried for a week, and then reinstalled XP.)
But Windows 7 is pretty decent. I will upgrade to it, but also leave on XP (dual boot) while I evaluate it.
It's been a long time since a new OS made anyone sit up and take notice. OSX is $30 if you want it; not a front page story there. And does anyone actually pay for Ubuntu? I think the author's points later in the article are the salient ones: No one with a stable system is going to uproot it in order to upgrade. Especially since the reward for doing so might be Vista. Like so many, I have an XP server that is solid, secure, and steady. XP will be supported for the next several years, so why upset that apple cart? I have a laptop that came with Vista and I've adapted well enough that I won't bother changing it. .
It sounds like MS will have to count on the long-term turn over of new machines arriving with 7 on them and users adapting. Even servers have to be replaced eventually, at least the drives, so that will be the migration moment. For many of us, we hope that by the time we get to that change, most of the bugs are resolved.
I'm typically on the trailing edge of adoption. In my early years, I was an early adopter, eager to check out new features, but now I opt for stability. So I typically wait until the first-adopters have flushed out all the bugs.
However, I may be adopting Windows 7 earlier than normal. I have a quad-core AMD processor + ASUS board, and it's dogging (and crashing) in Windows XP due to crappy board driver support. However, in the Windows 7 beta version I tested, it worked smoothly, and all my apps still ran.
I was not impressed with Vista. It came on my laptop so I tolerated it for about 4 months. This was in late 2008. I have a 64-bit bus, dual core. Vista optimized for 64-bit? Whatever. What really irks me is no official MS XP with SATA drivers and DIY "slipstreaming" (burning an XP + SATA drivers) is an error-prone process. My only option was the torrents to get XP back. I think my torrented XP was hacked in some way since numerous programs didn't work correctly. Plus I got tired of repeated IE and Firefox crashes in XP. Using Arch Linux now.