Ponce
12th July 2011, 12:26 PM
My XP is working just fine....thank you.
======================================
Microsoft passes 400m Windows 7 licences and implores XP users:
Switch nowSteve Ballmer touts desktop OS adoption but admits that share in mobile phone market has gone from 'very small to very small' as Windows Phone awaits takeoff
Microsoft has sold 400m Windows 7 licences, its chief executive Steve Ballmer told its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles - but warned that between half and two-thirds of PCs worldwide are still running the ten-year-old Windows XP, for which support will expire in less than a thousand days.
Ballmer said that the adoption of Windows 7, which was released in October 2009, has been significantly faster than for XP; the new product now runs 27% of all PCs worldwide according to data from Net Applications.
Microsoft also claimed that Internet Explorer 9 is now "the most popular modern browser running on Windows 7 PCs in the US" and that it is running on 17% of Windows 7 PCs worldwide.
Ballmer also alluded to the forthcoming Windows 8, expected in late 2012, which he said would be "a true reimagining of Windows PCs and the dawning of Windows slates." Microsoft demonstrated an early version of Windows 8 last month which it said would work on both desktop PCs and slates.
But the company is now trying to urge people and businesses to give up use of Windows XP (and, separately, Internet Explorer 6). In a blogpost, Stephen Rose, its senior community manager, suggested that "it's time to move from good enough to something much better", and pointed out that support for Windows XP will finally end in April 2014. "Bottom line, PCs running Windows XP will be vulnerable to security threats", he noted, because it will no longer receive security patches and hotfixes, as presently it does.
Ballmer admitted that its performance in the smartphone market, where the new Windows Phone platform is selling fewer devices than the now-deprecated Windows Mobile, had been poor: "Phones, we've gone from very small [market share] to very small, but it's been a heck of a year," he said to laughter. But, he added, "you're going to see a lot of progress in that market competitively as we move forward" - a reference to its partnership with Finland's Nokia to build Windows Phone devices.
Ballmer declined again to give sales figures for Windows Phone except to say it had sold "millions" of phones - which is no advance on the figure of 2m given at the beginning of the year.
Ballmer compared Microsoft's share of 400m licences for Windows 7 to Apple's putative 20m installed base for Mac OSX, without naming his rival: "Now, 20 is too much, but 400, last time I checked, is a lot more than 20."
Ballmer also announced that Microsoft has sold 100m licences for Office 2010, indicating continuing strong growth for the office suite, which will announce its full-year results on Thursday 21 July.
Ballmer said of Microsoft that "in some senses, we're relatively simple. We're involved in creating either the platforms or the hardware for three major devices: Small screens, big screens, and middle-sized screens. Sometimes called phones, PCs, and TVs, sometimes we'll talk about the PC and the slate as separate devices, but we're trying to drive forward the platform for intelligent devices.
"At the same time, we're investing in core scenarios on the back end, on the server and service side that becomes applications and tools that you can use to complete the experience - Bing, Office, our server and Azure platform, and of course Microsoft Dynamics."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/12/microsoft-windows-400-million-ballmer
======================================
Microsoft passes 400m Windows 7 licences and implores XP users:
Switch nowSteve Ballmer touts desktop OS adoption but admits that share in mobile phone market has gone from 'very small to very small' as Windows Phone awaits takeoff
Microsoft has sold 400m Windows 7 licences, its chief executive Steve Ballmer told its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles - but warned that between half and two-thirds of PCs worldwide are still running the ten-year-old Windows XP, for which support will expire in less than a thousand days.
Ballmer said that the adoption of Windows 7, which was released in October 2009, has been significantly faster than for XP; the new product now runs 27% of all PCs worldwide according to data from Net Applications.
Microsoft also claimed that Internet Explorer 9 is now "the most popular modern browser running on Windows 7 PCs in the US" and that it is running on 17% of Windows 7 PCs worldwide.
Ballmer also alluded to the forthcoming Windows 8, expected in late 2012, which he said would be "a true reimagining of Windows PCs and the dawning of Windows slates." Microsoft demonstrated an early version of Windows 8 last month which it said would work on both desktop PCs and slates.
But the company is now trying to urge people and businesses to give up use of Windows XP (and, separately, Internet Explorer 6). In a blogpost, Stephen Rose, its senior community manager, suggested that "it's time to move from good enough to something much better", and pointed out that support for Windows XP will finally end in April 2014. "Bottom line, PCs running Windows XP will be vulnerable to security threats", he noted, because it will no longer receive security patches and hotfixes, as presently it does.
Ballmer admitted that its performance in the smartphone market, where the new Windows Phone platform is selling fewer devices than the now-deprecated Windows Mobile, had been poor: "Phones, we've gone from very small [market share] to very small, but it's been a heck of a year," he said to laughter. But, he added, "you're going to see a lot of progress in that market competitively as we move forward" - a reference to its partnership with Finland's Nokia to build Windows Phone devices.
Ballmer declined again to give sales figures for Windows Phone except to say it had sold "millions" of phones - which is no advance on the figure of 2m given at the beginning of the year.
Ballmer compared Microsoft's share of 400m licences for Windows 7 to Apple's putative 20m installed base for Mac OSX, without naming his rival: "Now, 20 is too much, but 400, last time I checked, is a lot more than 20."
Ballmer also announced that Microsoft has sold 100m licences for Office 2010, indicating continuing strong growth for the office suite, which will announce its full-year results on Thursday 21 July.
Ballmer said of Microsoft that "in some senses, we're relatively simple. We're involved in creating either the platforms or the hardware for three major devices: Small screens, big screens, and middle-sized screens. Sometimes called phones, PCs, and TVs, sometimes we'll talk about the PC and the slate as separate devices, but we're trying to drive forward the platform for intelligent devices.
"At the same time, we're investing in core scenarios on the back end, on the server and service side that becomes applications and tools that you can use to complete the experience - Bing, Office, our server and Azure platform, and of course Microsoft Dynamics."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/12/microsoft-windows-400-million-ballmer