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janrinok
on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:46PM
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.
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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Poll: More Will Switch to Linux Than to Win8
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You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Monday April 07 2014, @01:53AM
I've been considering a live CD (or boot from USB thumb drive if I can get it to work). I'd use Linux for network oriented stuff, and boot into Windows for stuff that doesn't need a network but "just works" and I don't want to change. It's like a great big game of chicken we're playing with MS here. I'm not going to swerve off and buy new hardware unless I absolutely have to. The bit with UK health services looks like they're starting to swerve. Now if they'll just swerve for the rest of us, we can keep using our perfectly functional hardware and software for perhaps some reasonable fee, like $20/yr. I'd put my credit card in right now if they offered that.
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