IT managers clinging to Windows XP as their primary OS don’t plan on relinquishing the popular software until they absolutely must. A recent online poll conducted by IT blog TechRepublic.com got nearly 13,000 quick responses to the question “Is your organization still using Windows XP as the primary OS?” The lopsided vote was 96 percent saying yes, to 4 percent no.
And many IT managers want to keep it that way. Forty-three percent said, “We will always use Windows XP – we do not plan to switch.” A few more—45 percent—said when the inevitable day arrives, they’ll migrate to Windows 7. (Only 5 percent saw Linux in their futures, and 1 percent favored Mac OS X.) “It looks like the real loser in this poll is Windows Vista,” observed Mark Kaelin, a senior editor at TechRepublic.
While it’s tempting to blame these far-away conversions on the bad economy, only 7 percent said the economy had anything to do with the delay. The real reason for holding fast with XP, according to 63 of the respondents was: “XP works perfectly fine — we are waiting for a reason to make the change.”
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