Microsoft ends XP! Windows 7 can win users

Nowadays, the popularity of computerization is higher than the wave. Under the guidance of the policy of benefiting farmers from the country’s home appliances to the countryside, the rural market has become a cake for computer manufacturers. The rise of emerging markets will also bring A new round of competition in the operating system. As a computer mainstream operating system XP (Professional Edition) performance is good and practical, has been a product loved by many users, the operating system market leader, even the own brother with a lot of aura "Vista"; also failed to shake its dominance.

Recently, it was reported that on April 14th, Microsoft will terminate the free support for Windows XP Home Edition and Professional Edition, and provide extended extension services for XP Professional until April 8, 2014. Office 2003 will also be terminated for free services, and the extension will continue until August 4, 2012. As we all know, the operating system and office software have always been Microsoft's fist products. Microsoft once again proposed to terminate XP free support, which also means that Microsoft's new products Windows 7 and Office 14 will soon appear on the scene. However, the failure of Vista and Office 2007 is Microsoft's lingering failure. Now, is Microsoft re-applying, and can the popularity of new products be smooth? Does XP continue to be strong, or will it act as a roadblock for its own?

Windows XP is about to · stepping down the altar

Microsoft is making two punches and paving the way for Windows 7

Windows XP is the longest life of Microsoft And the most popular operating system, just because it was too successful, made Microsoft's big-handed Vista popularization strategy a short-lived, Office 2007 also followed.

When Vista is still testing, Microsoft has promoted and promoted Vista in a big way. In order to give this "newborn" a vast space, Microsoft even made up its mind and ended. For the classic Windows 98 support, even XP Microsoft was scheduled to terminate the service. Helpless XP system seems to have been ingrained, more enterprise deployment is unable to shake the moment, whether it is capital investment or technical support, let enterprises switch to Vista's arms overnight, Microsoft is really wrong. The two-year-old Vista, which replaced XP, was powerless and could only watch her fall.

It is because of the failure of Vista popularity that a new operating system, Windows 7, has been put on the development agenda. With the release of various betas, people started chasing Windows 7. It is reported that Microsoft will launch Windows7 RC version in May this year, and the official version of Windows 7 will be available in September. It's no wonder that Microsoft is eager to stop supplying XP's "free lunch" because Microsoft should start paving the way for Windows 7.

This is not the case. Now Microsoft has started the "First Intimate Contact with Windows 7" campaign. Business users can apply for the free use of Windows 7 Beta. The event will be from March 16 to 2009. On April 24th, from today's registration of user information, and after the end of April 24th, the mailing work of the Windows 7 Beta CD was scheduled. The trial period expires on August 1, 2009.

In addition to terminating the free support for XP, Microsoft has also stepped up its efforts against pirated users, especially for the XP Pro update piracy identification process, and once again adopt the "black screen" strategy. It is reported that the newly upgraded program can identify the latest counterfeit and stolen, leaked product Key, and can also identify the way to bypass the activation process. Once it is found to be a pirated system, the user's computer will be set as before. Black screen & rdquo;.

XP free lunch is gone, can Windows 7 attract users?

At present, Windows XP has a high share of the operating system market, about 63.5%, of which the professional version accounts for a large proportion, which is also the hardest hit by pirated XP. Microsoft stopped supporting XP for free and re-enables the "black screen" strategy. The intention is obvious. First, let these users choose to pay for support. At present, the financial crisis, XP payment support may add a lot of benefits to Microsoft. Second, let these Users upgrade the operating system, deprecate XP to use Vista or directly use Windows 7, to achieve the goal of rapid popularization of new products.

The new and old alternation of all things is always to be staged, and it also indicates that XP will withdraw from the stage of history sooner or later. Many websites have done online research, and when Microsoft does not support XP, how do users choose. Some people say that they will reluctantly upgrade to Vista (or temporarily put it on hold and upgrade directly to Windows 7). Some people say that Mac OS X will be their future, and even some people want to be Linux users because they are tired of paying for the operating system.

It can be seen that the user's choice can still be multi-faceted. What kind of product is Windows 7? Can the popularization of the new Windows 7 system be successfully promoted? It has become a hot spot at the moment. Interestingly, Microsoft Global Vice President Mike Nash recently revealed in Windows that Windows 7 hardware evaluation room was inadvertently revealed that Windows 7 was developed on the basis of Windows Vista architecture, and Windows 7 system has better software and hardware compatibility. Is Windows 7 the perfect version of Vista?

At the time of the new operating system test, it is inevitable that there will be such compatibility problems, but the situation that jeopardizes the hard disk data will also appear in the Windows 7 beta version, which will make the test users afraid. This is not the news on April 1st that Microsoft has issued a warning that Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) may damage important data on the computer, especially Lenovo and HP users. Maybe April Fool's Day is a joke, but it's really a joke, and it's enough to make it whole.

At the beginning, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 98 and did not bring the real popularity of Vista. Now Microsoft has re-applied, stop XP free support and pave the way for Windows 7, can it be successful? The key is to see whether the Windows 7 product features, compatibility, cost-effectiveness, usability, security and other aspects can make users happy to accept.

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