Re: Windows 2000 still Qiote Dominant

Stuart Millington wrote: 
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:59:48 -0400, C A Upsdell
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Stuart Millington wrote: 


Although, MS's blogs indicate (possible) progress in IE7's standards
support, as long as it is XP only it's already failed IMO. YMMV.

If 65% have XP, and most people have set XP for automatic updates ... don't you think that IE7 might spread a lot faster than (say) IE6 did? 


For XP users, yes. But, to a smaller % of machines. Unlike previous
versions of IE, the use of IE7 on the significant % (whatever the %
is) of pre-XP machines will be zero. This is not good.

I think that we are dealing with two populations: business PCs, and personal PCs.

For the business PCs -- which, as was pointed out earlier, 48% still use Win2000 -- PCs are replaced about every 4 years. This means that Win2000 will become effectively extinct within 4 years.

For personal PCs, perhaps 10% use WinME or older, and most of the rest use XP. I suspect that those using WinME or older will be replacing their PCs fairly soon, as their current PCs are very old.

The bottom line, I think, is that natural attrition will fairly quickly (say by 2008) have weeded out most of the Windows PCs that can't run IE7.


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