Your main desktop operating system for 2015 is:

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  1. 1. Your main desktop operating system for 2015 is:

    • Windows XP
      2
    • Windows Vista
      1
    • Windows 7
      41
    • Windows 8.0
      1
    • Windows 8.1
      94
    • Windows 10
      66
    • Windows Server
      1
    • A Windows version older than XP
      0
    • Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'
      0
    • Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion'
      1
    • Mac OS X 10.8 'Mountain Lion'
      0
    • Mac OS X 10.9 'Mavericks'
      1
    • Mac OS X 10.10 'Yosemite'
      20
    • A Mac OS X version older than 10.6
      0
    • Arch Linux
      2
    • Debian
      1
    • Fedora
      0
    • Ubuntu
      5
    • Other Linux distribution (specify below)
      6
    • Other operating system (specify below)
      0

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NEVER85

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You can still get patches. Not that it matters much any more as most malware and other nasties are targeting Windows Vista/7/8 these days. XP is actually a lot safer than the newer versions.

 

Well this is just flat out wrong.

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Decebalvs Rex

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Windows 7. I have 3 years old hardware inside, maximum compatibility with software so it stays there as the main OS until I completely upgrade to newer hardware.

Windows 10 will ready my computer when Broadwell and next gen Maxwell arrive.

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siah1214

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You can still get patches. Not that it matters much any more as most malware and other nasties are targeting Windows Vista/7/8 these days. XP is actually a lot safer than the newer versions.

The ignorance is breathtaking.

 

 

I'm running 8.1, but come Jan 20 I'll be on 10 on all my computers, and phone if possible. 

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Kazama Levi

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Kubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu with Kde on top of it)

 

Just upgraded PC, really liking this OS, feels very smooth.

 

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I already heard about it. Windows 95 has this cool new start menu, right? :woot:

 

You can still get patches. Not that it matters much any more as most malware and other nasties are targeting Windows Vista/7/8 these days. XP is actually a lot safer than the newer versions.

Windows XP has reached End of Life on April 8. How can you still get patches?

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remixedcat

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Windows 7. I have 3 years old hardware inside, maximum compatibility with software so it stays there as the main OS until I completely upgrade to newer hardware.

Windows 10 will ready my computer when Broadwell and next gen Maxwell arrive.

I got an Intel Inspiron 6000 laptop from the XP era to work with windows 10 :D even the wireless worked as well...

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DConnell Member

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Windows 8.1.

 

I am not going to use a pre-release version of Windows to do my homework.

 

I highly doubt that "Windows 10 crashed" is a valid excuse for not turning in my homework.

 

It's a more believable excuse than "My dog ate it"! :woot:

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FreeJAC1310

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Windows 8.1 with Start8 and Modern Mix until a proper release of 10. Or at least an RC release. Since the return of the start menu in 10 I have been distancing myself from the Start crap in 8. Sold 4 copies of Start 8 and Modern Mix myself to friends and families that got new PCs in 2014. Although I recently heard it is no longer compatible since Update 1??? I need to go figure that out.

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Aergan

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Windows Embedded POS edition or something is essentially Windows XP and it is supported until 2019.

 

Windows Embedded POS, the connotations for that that product acronym are now a lot more relevant today.

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chrisj1968

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Windows Embedded POS, the connotations for that that product acronym are now a lot more relevant today.

 

Windows Embedded POS. POS= Point of Sale? We used these  cash registers back at old Walter Reed Army Medical center circe 2004 that used an embedded Windows OS. can't do much on it. I mean as a consumer. Are you a busniess owner? sorry I don't mean to be poking around in your business.

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