With Windows 9 on the Horizon, Windows XP Users Are Still Unsettled
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The people I know, who are still running XP frankly don't care about the "potential" security issues, or keeping up with the latest technology. They only use their computers for basic things like word processing and e-mail and they don't see any reason to spend money on new hardware/software, until the old computer dies.
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Can't remember where I saw it now, but I saw this morning a report that 7 would go longer because of the poor performance of 8.:)
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LittleJay, post: 15737, member: 114 said:
The people I know, who are still running XP frankly don't care about the "potential" security issues, or keeping up with the latest technology. They only use their computers for basic things like word processing and e-mail and they don't see any reason to spend money on new hardware/software, until the old computer dies.
Agreed. My stepmother, bless her soul, can see no reason to change OS's. She's still on XP and probably will be until she dies. Everything I tell her about the advantages of a newer OS (yes.... I recommend 7 for her) falls on deaf ears. Shes TERRIFIED of 8/8.1 and will not touch my nieces lappy because of it. I finally got her to try my 7 machine a little last fall but you could see the sweat beading on her forehead from the anxiety. Theres many people in the same boat I would assume and no matter what we more technically adept think about them they are out there and still computing.
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I have an old XP Tough Book. But I only utilize it when I need to use software programs to connect to equipment that requires a DB9 Serial port with legacy software. My main computer runs Windows 7 so the Tough Book is just for special purposes. The company wont let us connect any XP machines to the network which is fine, I dont need it to connect to the company network. Most people in the company are on Windows 7 with some moving to Windows 8. My only complaint with any OS is when they hide things where you need to type a command in a search function instead of having it as part the menu structure. Why make it hard to find features. Maybe they are concerned someone will accidently change a parameter that will cause performance issues.
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Some of the Metro settings are a PITA to find. Some of that has to do with Metro specific settings being in the Metro interface and the other settings still being in the desktop interface. I've found that the more I use 8.1 the less irritating it gets and things do get easier to find.
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The "average" computer user, for the most part, doesn't care what OS is on the computer. They buy a computer and use the OS that came with it until they buy a new one, if they don't buy a new one, they don't change OSes.
My sister, for example, has a desktop that runs XP because that's the OS that came with it when she bought it. Her laptop is newer so has Win 7. They both work so why change anything?
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Can someone please explain to me who the average computer user is for some reason this concept escape me. Along with the average user another one is the senior user seems to always come up as another individual who has no concept of how to use a computer, yet at present it would seem that at least 80% of those on this site are seniors (me included). . .
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The people were talking about likely aren't on this forum. The ones I'm talking about only know the very basics to get by at using their PC. They know how to turn it on, open IE, hit Facebook etc. If it won't turn on or BSOD they call me to figure it out. They don't know what a hard drive is or does, or what RAM is and how much of it they have. To them the CPU is the tower. What's in it is magic.
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alphanumeric, post: 15890, member: 152 said:
The people were talking about likely aren't on this forum. The ones I'm talking about only know the very basics to get by at using their PC. They know how to turn it on, open IE, hit Facebook etc. If it won't turn on or BSOD they call me to figure it out. They don't know what a hard drive is or does, or what RAM is and how much of it they have. To them the CPU is the tower. What's in it is magic.
I hear that!
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