That whooooshing sound: Win7 hits 10% and keeps climbing

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Emil Protalinski at Ars Technica reports that Windows 7 now enjoys more than a 10% market share. That’s a rather amazing number, considering how many
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I bought a new computer in November with Windows 7 Home Premium preloaded. I like W7, and I have no complaints. I’d recommend it wholeheartedly, which I understand was not the reaction when Vista first came out.

The search function in Windows 7 is worth the price of admission all by itself.

Even though I’m the only one using my computer, I have three accounts: an Administrator account, a Standard User account, and Guest. I spend most of my time in my Standard User account, and so I can laugh at a lot of the stunts that hackers and other cyberscumbags try to pull. (Thanks for recommending this, the Administrator having an extra Standard User account, in your _Windows 7 All-In-One For Dummies_ book.)

BTW, I should add that just as I recommend Windows 7 wholeheartedly, I fully recommend your book _about_ W7. Your book is definitely value received for the money.

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Thanks, Thomas! You made my day…

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I think what you’re hearing is not a whooshing sound, but rather a pair of flushing sounds:

One from people eager to dump Vista in favor of…ANYthing, and another flushing sound as people’s option to buy XP on a new computer is flushed away by MS eager to pretend that the community will embrace their latest unpolished turd.

What I hear is a deafening silece: IT professionals who realize that MS *never* gets things right on the first try, and are not at all anxious to abandon the devil they know, 10-year-old tried-and-true WinXP, in favor of a MS turd that has yet to receive its SP1 polishing.

Also, IT pros are not anxious to embrace a version of Windows that has massively rearranged its menus and bloated beyond all reason (rather than sticking with the old menus and actually IMPROVING the features within them). Win7 comes with an unnecessarily high learning curve that IT help desks must hate.

In short, “whoosh” is the sound of hot air moving past our ears. Let’s not pretend that it’s the sound of an approaching parade.

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