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Microsoft made it way too hard to upgrade out of XP (unless you updated through Vista.) It is no wonder everyone is still on XP. It would light the PC industry
by herf 13y ago
Microsoft made it way too hard to upgrade out of XP (unless you updated through Vista.) It is no wonder everyone is still on XP.
It would light the PC industry on fire if they made it one click to move your stuff to another machine.
You can buy a new Mac every year and only wait a few hours to move everything, but on Windows it takes months.
- raesene3 13y agoThat could be a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. From what I've seen the migration time for large corporate XP deployments has little to do with the OS upgrade itself and everything to do with the application support issues. I was at a meeting recently where people were still saying that they had applications which would only run on XP, which was why they hadn't upgraded. The problem for corporates now is likely that they won't/can't complete an upgrade before the deadline and the risks of having unsupported XP are unknown. One theory is that a lot of potential attacker will be holding any XP exploits they have at the moment with the intent to use them after the end of support, when there will likely be no patch.
- girvo 13y agoNo. Going to new Apple releases has the same problem: app compatibility, and OS X doesn't support stuff going back to the 90's, either. And that's just for small personal apps on my iMac, let alone bespoke applications on windows that the Enterprise rely on.