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Default Windows XP users 'increasing'?

On Monday, February 3, 2014 1:27:00 PM UTC-5, Boating All Out wrote:
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On 2/3/14, 11:46 AM,
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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.