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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: 1) by iamjacksusername on Monday April 07 2014, @12:24AM

    by iamjacksusername (1479) on Monday April 07 2014, @12:24AM (#27218)
    I agree. Metro really sunk 8 as a viable desktop solution. Which is a shame because MS put a lot of effort into some incremental improvements over 7 for businesses... lower HW requirements, secure boot, ALSR and mandated DEP come to mind.

    I have moved a lot of companies to 7 but I see a lot of businesses stripping away core infrastructure and going to SAAS. While some are .net apps, more and more are just generic web front ends. As you said, I think MS is going to start to move to "Free" client model... the endpoint client is included with a Server CAL or similar.