When will xp finally be a minority?

[leon2006]

Even the money for new OS can be considered for a hardware upgrade. Another video card can give you a better return than Win7 at this stage.

 

[OvrClkr]

I agree, but what I do not understand is Bill's greed ATM.... Why charge 109.99 for an OLD OS? You already are in the books as one of the wealthiest men alive, why screw everyone by overpricing your OS's??? One day we will look back and say : Remember when XP was 149.99$?? Dude what a ripoff!!! " lol .... Anyways if 90% of all PC users have a copy of Windows, there is no need to overprice, specially in an economy like this.... This is the main reason peeps prefer to pirate a copy of Win and not purchase it......

 

[mactronix]

Even the money for new OS can be considered for a hardware upgrade. Another video card can give you a better return than Win7 at this stage.

Thats very dependant on your system, personally i get enough of a performance boost with W7 over XP to be worth 75% of what i would typically expect to get with a GPU upgrade. Im in the UK and have ordered W7 for £45.99, thats around a third of the cost of said GPU upgrade, and also removes the need to upgrade the CPU as well, i would end up CPU restricted with a GPU upgrade, probably am now if im honest which i think is where the boost is coming from with W7 supporting better multi threading its probably releasing a few more frames from the CPU.

Mactronix

 

[OvrClkr]

Well I have benched with XP and Win 7 and to tell you the truth in some instances I get better numbers using XP.... Don't know if it is due to my CPU but I doubt you will see a big difference in performance just cause you upgraded your OS....

 

[mactronix]

As i said results will depend on your system, there have been enough benchmarks out that say its very tight between the two which is whats making me think it must be the multi threading aspect and that i must be restricted a bit. All the benchmarks are done with top hardware which obviously wouldn't be restricted in anyway.
I can only talk from my personal experience but to me its (W7) worth its money purely in performance gains every time.

Mactronix

 

[gamerk316]

The issue is not one of dominance, but one of market share. As long as XP has share, DX development will essentially be stuck at 9.0c with extras.

XP still holds 60% share, give or take. I figure it needs to drop below 20% for devs to start to move on. This will take at least a full year to happen, probably closer to 18 months...

 

[OvrClkr]

As i said results will depend on your system, there have been enough benchmarks out that say its very tight between the two which is whats making me think it must be the multi threading aspect and that i must be restricted a bit. All the benchmarks are done with top hardware which obviously wouldn't be restricted in anyway.
I can only talk from my personal experience but to me its (W7) worth its money purely in performance gains every time.

Mactronix

Yea makes sense, what do you recommend? Buying Win Vista 64 now with upgrade to Win 7 or wait till Win 7 comes out and buy it then?

 

[Mousemonkey]

Go straight to W7 I reckon.

 

[OvrClkr]

Yea I figured but how much will a copy of Win7 64 cost? Kinda sweet to pay 109.99 for both, but I guess the downfall is the fact that Win7 comes as a coupon code and not a real actual disk. Unless I am wrong here......

 

[EXT64]

I guess you are reffering to gamers and such, as I know some places (like where I worked in the US Govt.) won't let Vista anywhere near the building! its either XP or XP 64 (or 2000).

 

[croc]

I guess you are reffering to gamers and such, as I know some places (like where I worked in the US Govt.) won't let Vista anywhere near the building! its either XP or XP 64 (or 2000).

...And the US gov't is well known for its excellent security, right?

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Well, the numbers on steam show it 54% xp, 46% Vista and W7, so its getting close.
Again, I put this in the gfx section because it shows gfx related numbers, not what the gov uses, or businesses use, but games use.
If the devs go by the overall numbers, including govs and businesses, I think a competitor could make quick use of my numbers here.
Ive a feeling once a few things happen, itll snowball.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Everyone seems more concerned about business adoption away frm xp, so here:
“I think corporations’ capital budgets got clamped down fairly aggressively at the end of last year. But in terms of PC refresh I would expect that now to happen in 2010. The fleet of PCs is getting fairly aged; most corporate notebooks are now over four years old, desktops are over five years old, they need to refresh,”
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20090903183747_Windows_7_Release_Will_Catalyze_PC_Spending_Chief_Executive_of_Intel.html

 

[maximiza]

Just last night I had to buy a new ethernet card, my 2 onboards burnt out. Anyway this netgear was instanly noticed by Vista 64 bit, but when booted into XP 32 bit it could not identify, i needed the disk. It has allready started changing with the hardware guys i think. I said April 2010, if you have an econmic collapse then XP will be around for 2-3 more years.