Hell no, we won't go: 10 reasons some XP users refuse to upgrade

jimroad471 said:

whs said:

Where did you get that iso for 61 bucks. I hope you did not get a lemon.

I went to DIGISOFT and paid 61.99 and then they send you a pdf with a VALID key and links for the OS you want....the prices have jump a bit higher but not much. I gave them an A1 rating for service and quality

go for it,,,it works fine

Thanks, looks indeed like they have a couple of 32bit versions for low prices. I guess 32bit might be OK for people who have former XP systems. They seem to be even retail versions. That is a good XP migration path.

Iforgot said:

Will M$ loose out on this?
Probably not..

If they don't upgrade to Win8, then there's Win7, or Win9, or the next.....

MS are risking that people will find out that they aren't the "only game in town".

lehnerus2000 said:

Iforgot said:

Will M$ loose out on this?
Probably not..

If they don't upgrade to Win8, then there's Win7, or Win9, or the next.....

MS are risking that people will find out that they aren't the "only game in town".

That is a good thing. It is about time that the PC market gets some more diversification. That will stimulate the developers of the other systems to work even harder.

I only wish that the Linux people could get together and agree on 2 or 3 mainstrem systems. The current chaos there is the biggest inhibitor for Linux growth - I think. Having many options is a nice concept (in theory). But if it takes a user 6 months to find even the right distro, then that is no good. And the resources being spread thinly over that many versions does not help either.

I seetle for 2 - one Debian 2 based (Debian 3 sucks) and one for the Red Hat fans.

Lee said:

. . let have a raise of hands of those who really and truly care whether those who wish to stay on Xp do just that. . .

*noticeable lack of hand raised*


As long as I don't have to use it, I'm not bothered.

I even made a little roadmap for those poor souls, LOL

XP Migrator Roadmap | PC Help Forum

Lee said:

. . let have a raise of hands of those who really and truly care whether those who wish to stay on Xp do just that. . .

I don't care what anybody else is using, I make my own choices and right now it is 8.1.

Jim

whs said:

lehnerus2000 said:

MS are risking that people will find out that they aren't the "only game in town".

That is a good thing. It is about time that the PC market gets some more diversification. That will stimulate the developers of the other systems to work even harder.

Sure (from our point of view). :)

I'm not sure that MS would think so though.

King Arthur said:

2 or 3 is 1 or 2 too many in my opinion, especially since some distros aren't binary-compatible with each other. Centralizing and standardizing around one distro with one desktop environment (essentially what Android did) would go a long towards popularizing desktop Linux because users would only need to learn one thing and hard/software developers would only need to develop for one thing.

The trouble is that if there was only one Linux distro available, the risk is that they would emulate MS and Apple.

Also, if they "got it wrong", it could take out the whole desktop Linux effort.

King Arthur said:

Also, Linux could do well to make installing software from any source as easy as doing it on Windows. I know the merits of repositories, but at the end of it I can't help but see them as just glorified "app" (my god I hate that word) stores.

If there was only one Linux distro, installing could be eliminated as an issue (i.e. there'd only be one GUI and one Terminal method needed).

I hate that word too.