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Windows XP users 'increasing'?
On Monday, February 3, 2014 1:27:00 PM UTC-5, Boating All Out wrote:
In article , says...
On 2/3/14, 11:46 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:04:24 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:
Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january
Microsoft has not given their business users any compelling reason to
switch.
If your mission is not significantly changing, why should you change
your hardware and software?
99% of all real business applications ran just fine on Windows 3.1 on
a 396. If you are just doing bookkeeping, inventory and point of sale,
you don't need that much computing power.
All of these flashy graphics do not actually add much to the average
business man's operation.
Hardware is pretty stagnant these days so I am not really sure why
they need a different OS.
Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its
price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put
Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste
the money.
What's $100 after spending $1000 on a laptop?
But if you don't need Win 7, why even think about it?
Besides, the Apple OS isn't really free. Its cost is just bundled into the overpriced Mac hardware.
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