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Tom's Hardware reports on an Avast Antivirus study which found that ~24% of their customers still used XP, and of those, 27% didn't plan to upgrade.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has cut the price of XP patches by as much as 95% for those corporations and governments that haven't yet moved on. The model now seems to be a "new ceiling is $250,000, according to several sources, although the $200-per-device price remained in place." That ceiling is down from $5 million just a few weeks ago. Those patches, by the way, are not available for the general public.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by artman on Friday April 18 2014, @07:39AM
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2456135,00.as p [pcmag.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @09:12PM
Well that's dead on. He got some of his facts wrong, but he's not even trolling there. XP really is a more usable OS than Vista or 7 or 8.
I know I'm supposed to like 7, but it does NOT work significantly differently from the way Vista worked, and both are inferior to XP. (8 is such an atrocity as to be ignored in civilized company.)