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Poll: More Will Switch to Linux Than to Win8

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.

gewg_ writes:

A recent poll by The Inquirer asked, "Which operating system will you use after Windows XP support ends on 8 April?"

Among respondents, 33 percent said they will move to Windows 7, 17 percent will stick with XP, 13 percent will switch to Linux, 11 percent will get Windows 8, and 5 percent said OS X.

So most will switch to Windows 7, but many would rather stay with Win XP without support than switch to Linux.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ticho on Sunday April 06 2014, @10:33PM

    by ticho (89) on Sunday April 06 2014, @10:33PM (#27191) Homepage Journal

    If they really took a random sample of population to ask, most of them would not even know what an operating system is, and would respond "I will use whatever is on my new computer, and call my $familymember to fix it up for me."

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  • (Score: 2) by threedigits on Monday April 07 2014, @07:24AM

    by threedigits (607) on Monday April 07 2014, @07:24AM (#27315)

    That would also apply to corporate desktops. "We use whatever came with the new computers and call IT to fix it for us."

    And, of course, corporate IT just installs whatever means less work for them.