A couple of posts ago we referenced a new item which says: "A recent poll found 20% or respondents indicate they would switch to GNU/Linux as a result of the ending of support for SP2."
Even after dumping support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), the Vole is still finding it hard to get people to move off Windows XP and onto Windows 7. According to figures released by Netmarketshare, usage of Windows Vista and Windows 7 combined fails to eclipse that of Windows XP. That's a disappointing statistic, given that Windows 7 has been available, in one way or another, for well over a year and Windows Vista has been knocking around for nearly four years.
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Needs Sunlight
2010-08-03 18:09:07
Once SP2 hit, shops were DDOS'ed for two years and that gave Microsofters two years to catch up on their whack-a-mole against linux.
The migration from XP to XP SP2 was about as painful for the IT departments as it would have been to just upgrade to Linux. Vista and Vista7 make it hell for the users too. At this point there is no legitimate reason to not upgrade to either Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or to Ubuntu.
WINE does a good job on some of the legacy applications while replacements are found.