I was just checking some stats on WinCustomize, and noticed that Windows 7 makes up about 60% of the traffic WC receives each month! A year ago, XP was still beating Win7.
Speaking of giving XP the axe...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Bebi Bulma | Discussion: WinCustomize Site Issues
Nothing major by any means, but I just noticed the page title for the forums mentions nothing but "XP skins, XP themes, XP this and that blah blah." Might need to be updated to say 7 instead. 
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Fuzzy Logic
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:52 AM
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:52 AM
With 60% of users on W7 it time to swing that axe on XP.
It's better to ditch the past and move forward.
gmc2
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:36 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:36 AM
how about just changing it to "Windows" this and that. be a little more all encompassing.
LightStar
Reply #4 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:20 AM
Reply #4 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:20 AM
Fuzzy Logic
With 60% of users on W7 it time to swing that axe on XP.
It's better to ditch the past and move forward.
It's better to ditch the past and move forward.
Not sure where you got your 60% Fuzzy, but as of August 2011 Windows XP still had 35% of the market share and Windows 7 at 31%. Vista was a whopping 12%! 
With this site showing Windows XP even higher: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
WOM
Reply #5 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:26 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:26 AM
I think thats 60% of the site members are using W7.
JcRabbit
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:36 AM
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:36 AM
LightStar
Not sure where you got your 60% Fuzzy, but as of August 2011 Windows XP still had 35% of the market share and Windows 7 at 31%. Vista was a whopping 12%!
From Winstep stats for the last 30 days, Windows 7 is 66.39%, XP is 28.80% and Vista is 4.45%.
LightStar
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:50 AM
Quoting LightStar, reply 4Not sure where you got your 60% Fuzzy, but as of August 2011 Windows XP still had 35% of the market share and Windows 7 at 31%. Vista was a whopping 12%!
From Winstep stats for the last 30 days, Windows 7 is 66.39%, XP is 28.80% and Vista is 4.45%.
Quoting LightStar, reply 4Not sure where you got your 60% Fuzzy, but as of August 2011 Windows XP still had 35% of the market share and Windows 7 at 31%. Vista was a whopping 12%!
From Winstep stats for the last 30 days, Windows 7 is 66.39%, XP is 28.80% and Vista is 4.45%.
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:50 AM
JcRabbit
Quoting LightStar, reply 4Not sure where you got your 60% Fuzzy, but as of August 2011 Windows XP still had 35% of the market share and Windows 7 at 31%. Vista was a whopping 12%!
From Winstep stats for the last 30 days, Windows 7 is 66.39%, XP is 28.80% and Vista is 4.45%.
JcRabbit
Quoting LightStar, reply 4Not sure where you got your 60% Fuzzy, but as of August 2011 Windows XP still had 35% of the market share and Windows 7 at 31%. Vista was a whopping 12%!
From Winstep stats for the last 30 days, Windows 7 is 66.39%, XP is 28.80% and Vista is 4.45%.
Well, if WC is at 60% and Winstep is at 66% for Windows 7 that is really good for your respective sites, I was just stating what I found on the market shares which don't reflect the same. But I understand we would all need to go with our sites statistics for business purposes.
RickJP
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:53 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:53 AM
By Island Dog on September 12, 2011 4:40:22 PM from 
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WebGizmos
Reply #12 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:03 AM
Reply #12 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:03 AM
It's all a conspiracy I tell ya! 
Microsoft made it so you should buy it! 
JcRabbit
Reply #13 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:32 AM
Reply #13 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:32 AM
LightStar
Well, if WC is at 60% and Winstep is at 66% for Windows 7 that is really good for your respective sites, I was just stating what I found on the market shares which don't reflect the same. But I understand we would all need to go with our sites statistics for business purposes.
Personally I don't really care, as all Winstep software is (still) compatible with Windows 2000... and Win9x support was only dropped a couple of years ago (much to the chagrin of the *four* Win9x users who visited the Winstep web site in the last 30 days, I'm sure). 
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #16 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:57 AM
Reply #16 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:57 AM
Hmmm, 12% are using Vista 
Given the intelligent top 2% are in Mensa, I figured the bottom 2% would be Vista users - guess I underestimated the power of stupidity.
So much for the bell curve...
Snowman
Reply #17 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:08 AM
Reply #17 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:08 AM
Fuzzy Logic
Hmmm, 12% are using Vista
Given the intelligent top 2% are in Mensa, I figured the bottom 2% would be Vista users - guess I underestimated the power of stupidity.
So much for the bell curve...
Given the intelligent top 2% are in Mensa, I figured the bottom 2% would be Vista users - guess I underestimated the power of stupidity.
So much for the bell curve...
Snowman is happy being stupid
I'm not downgrading to neither XP nor Win7 anytime soon.
JcRabbit
Reply #18 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:54 AM
Reply #18 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:54 AM
Jafo
Darn it, Jorge....I have Win 3.11 ........
Poor Jafo, I'm so sorry...
... for you. 
Fuzzy Logic
Hmmm, 12% are using Vista... So much for the bell curve...
Although my main system has Win7 Ultimate x64 in it, I also have a laptop and another PC system who both have Vista installed, and I ain't changing that.
Vista got a bad reputation because it broke so many things, but the differences between Vista and 7 are mainly 'skin deep'. If you like 7, you like Vista too. 7 was embraced mainly because by the time it came out most developers had already upgraded their applications to work properly in Vista, so users who jumped straight to it from XP never felt the pain. Unfortunately, it seems that it became a fashion thing to shoot Vista down.
Personally I used it every day since it's release and until the release of Windows 7, and I liked it. Now, the part of changing Winstep applications to work properly with it, that part did make me pull my hair out. [e digicons]:')[/e]
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Reply #1 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:43 AM
I understand why XP support has to go, yet the stock of older blinds is huge compared to what's been updated. I have W7, but I'm also running an XP PC for that reason.