Posted on Saturday, September 28 2013 @ 20:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Windows IT Pro
reports Microsoft is determined to make sure that Windows 7 will not become the next Windows XP. What this means is that Microsoft will let Windows 7 die a quicker death in order to push customers towards newer versions of Windows:
With Windows XP support finally winding down, the firm recently revealed that about 30 percent of all PCs in use worldwide are still running the aging OS. But at its company meeting, the real figure—27 percent—emerged, which means there are about 405 million XP PCs in use worldwide, an eye-opening figure. But Microsoft is determined not to let this happen again. So while many of us believe that Windows 7 will neatly slip into XP's role and become the next XP—partially because so few businesses are interested in Windows 8.x—Microsoft will instead push its newer OSs and let Windows 7 die a quicker death. It believes that by "listening" to customers with Windows 8.1, it can make this happen, and that the business-oriented changes in that version of the OS put it over the top. We'll see, but I've yet to hear anything like that from the enterprise.
