More than a third (37 percent) of respondents to a PC Advisor poll said they continue to use Windows XP, turning their noses up at Microsoft's more recent Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
Asked 'Which operating systems do you use?', 31.4 percent said they use XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the most recent update to the venerable platform; the remaining 5.6 percent use SP2 or earlier. Microsoft has confirmed that it will cease actively supporting SP2 in mid-July.
Of Microsoft's newer programs, last year's Windows 7 was considerably more popular, with a 30.6 percent share.
Windows Vista, by comparison, was named by just 16.4 percent of respondents; 14.5 percent run the newest Vista SP2, while the remaining 1.9 percent are on Vista SP1 or have not installed a service pack at all.
But XP seems to be as far back as most people are willing to go. Just 1.8 percent of respondents selected 'Windows (all other versions)'.
The remaining votes were made up by Linux (7 percent), the various versions of Mac OS (6.4 percent) and 'Other' (0.8 percent).
Based on 1561 votes, 6 July 2010. Click here to vote. Alternatively, join the discussion on PC Advisor's forums.
Comments
Phil said: Daniel just use Zinstall XP7 wwwzinstallcom Itll let you keep your XPs Outlook Express in Windows 7 was reviewed here somewhere
Daniel said: I have tried 7 and liked it BUT not the e-mail I want Outlook Express even if I have to pay for it If I am forced to move to 7 I will use third party to get around what ever that junk in Win 7 is
Ansilatoms said: My issue with going to Windows 7 is twofold For one thing its not just an upgrade Its a new install with no automatic transfer of data and apps That wastes my timewhich brings me to the second issuethe learning curve If you enjoy tinkering about and learning new and wonderous features thats marvelous but for me these machines and apps are tools I use them to accomplish OTHER things aside from learning how to use them A hammer is a hammer is a hammer and I dont want to buy a new hammer and then try to figure out what part is the handle because so redesigned it that its not immediately obvious MS Word has completely lost me as a user once I can no longer use Word 2000 If I have to learn a new word Processor it wont be Word
clive damiani said: i still use xp sp2as most of the games i have installed will not run on sp3i have tried sp3it may of improved the performance of my pcbut i cant run any gamesso i installed it
David Price said: Gimlet - were using PC to mean all personal computers Macs Linux PCs and all Rather than the Im a Mac Im a PC divide But yes I make it 435 percent of Windows PC users still using XP Microsoft clearly has its work cut out getting people to upgrade - David
Gimlet said: Surely its closer to 44 as youre talking about PC users still using XP Take away the non-Windows users and its 44 still on XP