Windows 7 will announce the end of the XP reunification market era

In August, the PCWorld website conducted an online survey. The results show that more than 8,000 readers said that Windows XP is their own basic operating system. There are three main reasons why XP users don't upgrade Vista: they love XP environment very much, Vista lacks new features worth upgrading, and they worry about Vista compatibility.

Users who criticize Windows Vista account for a large portion (62% of respondents are negative about Vista), and 81% of these respondents said they only know Windows Vista. However, most respondents are more open-minded about Windows 7.

In fact, 26% of respondents said they have used Windows 7: 73% of respondents said they support Windows 7, and only 11% of respondents are negative about Windows 7.

In addition, 56% of respondents expressed a desire to upgrade to Windows 7 immediately or eventually. Of the respondents who just heard about Windows 7 (not using Windows 7), 56% of respondents said they support Windows 7, and only 12% of respondents have a negative attitude toward Windows 7.

Of some respondents who did not want to upgrade, 40% of respondents plan to stick with XP. We have therefore raised the question: When did XP users begin to stick to their rules and ignore their successors (Vista and Windows 7)?

Microsoft discontinued Windows XP on June 30, 2008. On April 14, 2009, mainstream technical support for Windows XP also ended. But Microsoft still allows PC makers to offer downgraded CDs, and XP supporters will install Vista through XP.

According to the latest report from ForresterResearch, a technology market research organization, most corporate PC spending decision makers are interested in upgrading the company's computer operating system contract to Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7. This means the long-awaited Windows. The XP operating system may be completely phased out of the market before the final extended support contract expires in April 2014. According to foreign media reports, according to the Forrester survey, 80% of commercial personal computers currently use the Windows XP operating system. However, most of the companies surveyed are interested in upgrading their company computers to Windows 7 systems listed on the 22nd of this month, although the upgrade schedule is quite different.

Although the latter's upcoming corporate technology updates can be foreseen, the progress of its expansion may still be blocked by some background factors.

Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray pointed out in the report that the factors that led to the end of Windows XP in the corporate world include the need for companies to update their old IT infrastructure; the XP support contract is about to expire and will not be updated. And its getting less and less pipelines; Windows 7 features make upgrades have their potential; plus XP mode removes barriers to application incompatibility.

Gray said that one of the first contingency measures taken by corporate IT managers to reduce spending was the extension of the existing desktop XP system contract from four years to five years. , extending the laptop contract from 3 years to 4 years.

Not only that, but many companies have postponed the schedule of system updates, waiting for the general introduction of Windows 7 and then upgrading the system.

It is conceivable that once Windows 7 is widely available, the ability of IT vendors to deploy XP will decline. In the 18 months after the launch of Windows 7, or after the first Windows 7 update (service pack) was launched, “original equipment manufacturing (OEM) licenses attached to each personal computer will no longer include XP upgrade rights. ”.

This actually represents a big company or small and medium-sized enterprise that wants to let the company's computers continue to lay XP systems, in addition to going back to find out the unused XP license, or to purchase the enterprise version. Authorized new computer. These additional measures will burden the company's procurement process and are not expected to be favored by IT managers.

Not only that, XP Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3 will expire in April 2014, and Microsoft will not provide updates or enhancements afterwards, resulting in any IT that intends to continue to sell the old operating system. Businesses are more inconvenient.