Windows 7 not as popular as I thought...
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Maybe, but many will upgrade thier computer over the next 3 years as well. Only people who will wait are those who need to get a new comp 6 months before Win8.
As well, businesses will still be transferring over and aren't going to hop onto Win8 if Win7 is tested and stable and win8 is brand new and not tested. You will also be seeing increased use of Win7 by corperations as XP is dropped from support.
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I'm not sure that 7 will top XP. Reason: MS wants to release another OS in 3 years time.
That's an interesting point, considering XP's longevity compared to other MS OS's.
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I'm not sure that 7 will top XP. Reason: MS wants to release another OS in 3 years time. So, some may simply skip right over 7 and onto the next thing.
Bring on Windows 8, I'm ready!
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A better comparison would be how are sales between the two at a given period (First year release sales vs. XP’s first year release sales).
That would be the only really fair comparison.
It wouldn't really be that fair, since far more people and businesses now use computers compared to when XP was released...
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And I have no doubt that Windows 7 will come to top both Vista and XP, the only reason it hasn't already is because most people do not upgrade their OSes, they just use whatever their PC came with until they get a new PC.
I'm not sure that 7 will top XP. Reason: MS wants to release another OS in 3 years time. So, some may simply skip right over 7 and onto the next thing.
Still don't know why MS wants to rush like that, but only the people like us who even pay attention to OS developments might do that. The average Joe probably isn't even aware that MS wants to release Win 8 so soon, and their pre-2007 OEM XP rig probably won't last until 2012/2013 without intense maintenance that they can't provide.
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Quote some time ago from MS
Microsoft has changed its approach to naming operating systems (e.g XP, Vista) and is using an internal numbering system and the next Windows operating system, Windows 7, is the 7th release. Hence the replacement for Windows 7 is expected to be called Windows 8.
You get a trillion dollars a year for coming up with that sort of logic! Oh how I wish I were brainy
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Quote some time ago from MS
Microsoft has changed its approach to naming operating systems (e.g XP, Vista) and is using an internal numbering system and the next Windows operating system, Windows 7, is the 7th release. Hence the replacement for Windows 7 is expected to be called Windows 8.
You get a trillion dollars a year for coming up with that sort of logic! Oh how I wish I were brainy
Not so fast, if they keep up that naming scheme to version 10, Apple will probably sue the pants off them, or at least try to.
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Still don't know why MS wants to rush like that
Revenue, and it's what everybody else does.
The average Joe probably isn't even aware that MS wants to release Win 8 so soon, and their pre-2007 OEM XP rig probably won't last until 2012/2013 without intense maintenance that they can't provide.
The average Joe could even be concerned that there must be something wrong with 7 if 8 is coming out so quickly.
Not so fast, if they keep up that naming scheme to version 10, Apple will probably sue the pants off them, or at least try to.
Not unless then call it Windows X. Which I am sure they won't do. And besides, most Apple fans believe everything is already copied from their beloved MAC's...so naming it Windows OS X would only make sense.
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Still don't know why MS wants to rush like that
Revenue, and it's what everybody else does.
The average Joe probably isn't even aware that MS wants to release Win 8 so soon, and their pre-2007 OEM XP rig probably won't last until 2012/2013 without intense maintenance that they can't provide.
The average Joe could even be concerned that there must be something wrong with 7 if 8 is coming out so quickly.
I never used to know when a new Windows was coming out until it hit the shelf. But either way you've just proven how illogical it is that MS would rush out a new OS so quickly.
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A better comparison would be how are sales between the two at a given period (First year release sales vs. XP’s first year release sales).
That would be the only really fair comparison.
It wouldn't really be that fair, since far more people and businesses now use computers compared to when XP was released...
But it would be the "fairer" (fairest) comparison