Is XP finally dying or is it the PCs it's been running on? | Linux Today

Is XP finally dying or is it the PCs it’s been running on?

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 4, 2011

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“The truth is that users haven’t been moving from XP to 7 of
their own free will. They’ve been moving only because their old XP
PCs are finally giving up the ghost. Then, and only then, are they
getting Windows 7. Or, are they? If you look closer at Net
Applications’ latest end-user Web statistics you’ll see that
desktop users are Not moving to Windows 7 in droves.”


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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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