Why are people switching back to XP?

Just want to get a concensus about why people are switching back to XP. I have used XP Pro in the past and had no problems. Once I went to Vista Ultimate, it was ok but, it wasn't all that's cracked up to be. Now, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and I love it! It's what Vista should've been. Windows 7 has been very stable for me and I haven't had any issues. Why would some consider goinb back to XP?

I know of no one going back to XP. Most are migrating to Win 7 and are happy they did.

In2Photos wrote in post #9236038
I know of no one going back to XP. Most are migrating to Win 7 and are happy they did.

You probably don't but, I know a few who did. Windows 7 has been excellent but, I've also read that some had difficulties with the upgrade. The upgrade to Windows 7 was real easy and user friendly all the way. Some don't think so.

A couple of friends tried to go from Vista to 7 but had problems, so stayed on Vista. Another bought a new computer and chose XP on it as it's what they know. XP just works, and people know how to use it.

tim wrote in post #9236455
A couple of friends tried to go from Vista to 7 but had problems, so stayed on Vista. Another bought a new computer and chose XP on it as it's what they know. XP just works, and people know how to use it.

True. Xp works fine out of the box.

I'm on XP and have no intention of changing. So there.

I know people that stayed on XP ( i have two machines on XP that i don't plan on upgrading), and I know people who stayed on Vista (three machines, I hope to have them all migrated by june, but Vista works fine on all three, and actually better than XP on one laptop).

Basically nobody is downgrading to XP, and in fact, many computers CAN'T be downgraded, since XP x64 drivers were never released for their hardware (and XP x64 is actually worse than Vista x64 because XP/nt 5 was never designed for 64bit, Vista/nt 6 was designed for it from day 1, 7 is nt 6.1 so it's even better for x64). If someone is downgrading from 7 to xp, they just aren't bight enough to use XP mode ( or never thought ahead to have VT... hell, even my 4 year old laptop has VT, and many desktops as old as 2005 also do)

jdizzle wrote in post #9236334
You probably don't but, I know a few who did. Windows 7 has been excellent but, I've also read that some had difficulties with the upgrade. The upgrade to Windows 7 was real easy and user friendly all the way. Some don't think so.

According to what I've been reading the number one issue with Windows 7 is the actually upgrade process (drivers, corruption and so on). The second biggest issue is clean installs (usually on older machines). And the third is migrating from 32bit (XP and Vista) to 64bit Windows 7; people generally don't understand that 64bit OS requires different drivers so they are getting stuck on the install process. However, once fully migrated and all errors taken care of, Windows 7 is very well liked by new users.

That said, in a government/business/ed​ucation environment moving from one OS to another requires time, money, training, money, down time and of course money. So migration will be slow and steady. For many, Windows XP is highly stable now (mature) and relatively safe as long as strict security policies are put in place (ie users with limited permissions, Registry locked by Domain Administrator, virus protection, inner/outer firewalls, no personal computers/flash drive access...). Of course, even then trojans will always be a problem as well as ActiveX and port exploits.

We just had a major trojan ripple through our network and we have more than a few thousand XP machines. The only ones that were infected were those that had been off during the last four virus updates (that's like six weeks). All the other machines had a popup stating a trojan had been detected and deleted.

The biggest issues with any OS is the end user. Training them is a full time job and the reason I still have mine

MaxxuM wrote in post #9236884
The biggest issues with any OS is the end user. Training them is a full time job and the reason I still have mine

Quite true... though if we all earned a dollar every time we fixed an issue caused entirely by the end user, I would have myself a new camera and super-tele set, and you would probably have your own country

I know plenty of people who believe the world is only a few thousand years old. I also know a few who believe the world is flat. I've meet people who believe wearing a seatbelt is dangerous, or that if travel faster than 100kph you will die.
They are the same sort of people who believe XP is the best operating system ever developed and that the Intel P4 is the height of computing technology.

I try to ignore them, and remind myself that rationality and intelligence can be mutually exclusive.

You're deliberately playing dumb there Moppie, and you're insinuating that people using XP are stupid. "It does what I want and I know how to use it" is as good a reason to use XP as any, as is not paying for Windows 7.

There are lots of people using XP because they don't have any choice, they don't care, they don't or can't spend the money in Windows 7, or they are still using an old school computer from 10 years ago.
Then, there are those people who despite being able to afford windows 7, and despite having the greatest and latest hardware, still insist on using XP because they believe it is the best OS ever created.
Whats worse is they like to evanaglise about how great it is.
It is this later group to which I refer.

XP is still a good OS and it works. After using Windows ME, it was bleh! The only reasons for me using Windows 7 is mostly for gaming. I'm an avid PC gamer and I'll probably die gaming. Using photography with my PC is definitely secondary since I don't make a living from it. I know a few gamers that still use XP and they love it but, I don't care if they upgrade.

jdizzle,
Well I don't see a need to pay $$$ for an upgrade... I dropped back to XP from vista because vista really sucked for my network. So I went back to XP which works fine for all programs used on our computers and network. Not knocking 7 but not worth the cost to upgrade, when hardware gets upgraded then maybe I will try?

I guess I am not liked by the moderator Moppie (not that I give a hoot ).

Moppie wrote in post #9237103
... rationality and intelligence can be mutually exclusive.

I've certainly always tried to live up to this ideal. I was planning on installing Win 7 Pro on my Win XP PC, but changed my mind. The custom machine is one year old, and is running rock solid-- no weirdness, no anomolies, no instability in the OS or applications. I'm trying to stick with my other ideal of "not fixin' what ain't broke".

I gave my unused copy of Windows 7 Pro 64 bit to my engineer son-in-law to install on my daughter's laptop.