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Originally Posted by CommonReader
Talk about the bleedingly obvious. The larger the company, the longer it takes to move to the next operating system. There are plenty of large multi-national companies that are still running on XP.
Most tech reviewers in the media seem to consist of media-studies graduates who believe that the ability to switch on an iPad is sufficient qualification to write about IT issues.
MS simply had to move forward to accommodate touch surfaces. However, unlike Apple they don't force you to upgrade or perish. They are still providing security updates for XP, after all, while you will be hard pressed to find someone who will even recall the name of the OS that was used by Apple at the time of XP's release.
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+1. My agency just updated our desktops this past summer (about 5,000 machines), switching from XP/Office '03 to 7/Office '10. It was only necessitated because the hardware was hopelessly out of date, not because the OS and Office suite actually needed updating. Had that not been the case, we would have chugged along with XP for the foreseeable future.
And, just to show you where our priorities are, the new machines are all 32-bit. What old-stock warehouse did they dig those things out of? The finest machines the lowest bidder could provide...