Even the IRS is still using Windows XP.
Avast: 27% Windows XP Users Plan to do Absolutely Nothing : Read more
Avast: 27% Windows XP Users Plan to do Absolutely Nothing : Read more
As a dev, you should be able to appreciate that the stuff under the hood >>>>> the GUI on the the hierarchy of importance. It's a lot easier to fix a broken UI than to fix a broken kernel.I'm a dev, and... Windows 7 is a usability disaster... explorer, start menu, so messed up. You can't even dig deeper than a few folders in Win 7 Explorer because MS intelligently decided to remove the horizontal scrollbar! Retards. See classicshell.net for more usability disasters in Win 7... don't even get me started on Win 8/Win8.1 ! I've been seriously contemplating Mac OSX since Windows 8.
Most of my dev team at work have already switched to Mac Pro's.
In the short term, sure. But in the long term, you're way off base. Whether or not they "care" today isn't really relevant. Software and hardware vendors will increasingly drop WinXP support in the coming years. It has happened before, it will happen again. A lot of people with Windows 3.11 machines didn't care when Windows 95 came out. But when they couldn't run the latest software designed for Win9x, suddenly they started caring.The situation will not correct and XP users won't get swamped by malware attacks and those people don't care about Windows 7 let alone Windows 8 and i don't blame them.
If it's not connected to the net... it doesn't really matter what OS it runs. Anyway, you could always run a VM if future events forced you to replace it some years from now, and the new hardware lacked any kind of driver support for XP.My wife has a very expensive, seldom-used piece of proprietary software used to run an embroidery sewing machine. It runs on XP, and compatibility mode does not work. So we have one old PC dedicated for its use that is not connected to the Internet in any way. We won't be "upgrading" that PC, ever.